Rissa brevirostris
The red-legged kittiwake is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. It breeds in the Pribilof Islands, Bogoslof Island, and Buldir Island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, and the Commander Islands, Russia, and spends the winter at sea.
terathopius · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- red-legged kittiwakePBDB
- Sits inside
- RissaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
- Mass
- 391 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rissa brevirostris on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Rissa brevirostris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Rissa brevirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Aethia cristatella1 site
- Aethia psittacula1 site
- Aethia pusilla1 site
- Aethia pygmaea1 site
- Branta canadensis1 site
- Cepphus columba1 site
- Cerorhinca monocerata1 site
- Eumetopias jubatus1 site
- Fratercula cirrhata1 site
- Fratercula corniculata1 site
- Fulmarus glacialis1 site
- Hydrobates leucorhous1 site
- Larus1 site
- Larus glaucescens1 site
- Larus hyperboreus1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Phoebastria albatrus1 site
- Ptychoramphus aleuticus1 site
- Synthliboramphus antiquus1 site
- Uria1 site
- Uria aalge1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rissa brevirostris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Rissa brevirostris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- terathopius
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Rissa brevirostris · ROM:Birds:150523
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRissa through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruch 1853)