Thalassarche bulleri

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- Buller's albatrossPBDB
- Sits inside
- ThalassarchePBDB
- 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 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Thalassarche bulleri 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene67%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Thalassarche bulleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thalassarche bulleri and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Thalassarche bulleri and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Anas chlorotis2 sites
- Ardenna bulleri2 sites
- Ardenna grisea2 sites
- Cyanoramphus2 sites
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus2 sites
- Fulmarus glacialoides2 sites
- Nestor meridionalis2 sites
- Pachyptila2 sites
- Pachyptila turtur2 sites
- Pelecanoides urinatrix2 sites
- Puffinus assimilis2 sites
- Tadorna variegata2 sites
- Thalassarche cauta2 sites
- Turnagra capensis2 sites
- Alauda arvensis1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anthornis melanura1 site
- Apteryx australis1 site
- Callaeas cinereus1 site
- Charadrius bicinctus1 site
- Charadrius obscurus1 site
- Chenonetta finschi1 site
- Chlidonias albostriatus1 site
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thalassarche bulleri, 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- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand1
- Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand1
- Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham Islands1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1

Picture of Thalassarche bulleri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Thalassarche bulleri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThalassarche through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rothschild 1893)