Puffinus mitchelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PuffinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Procellariiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Puffinus mitchelli on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Puffinus mitchelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Puffinus mitchelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Puffinus mitchelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Puffinus priscus4 sites
- Morus vagabundus3 sites
- Phoebastria anglica3 sites
- Branta2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Cosmopolitodus planus2 sites
- Diomedea2 sites
- Diomedea milleri2 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Isurus2 sites
- Megapaloelodus2 sites
- Morus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Negaprion2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Presbychen abavus2 sites
- Recurvirostra2 sites
- Squatina lerichei2 sites
- Sulidae2 sites
- Aepycamelus1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Allodesmus kernensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Puffinus mitchelli, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- A specimen-based approach to reconstructing the late Neogene seabird communities of California3
- History of research at Sharktooth Hill, Kern County, California1
- Birds from the Miocene of Sharktooth Hill, California1
Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Puffinus mitchelli was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Puffinus mitchelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Puffinus mitchelli was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPuffinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1961