Uria lomvia

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Also called

Thick-billed murrePBDB

Sits inside

UriaPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria

Life habit

ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

• Pliocene5%
• Pleistocene49%
• Holocene45%

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.

Where Uria lomvia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Somateria mollissima5 sites
• Cepphus grylle4 sites
• Clangula hyemalis4 sites
• Larus hyperboreus4 sites
• Odobenus rosmarus4 sites
• Rangifer tarandus4 sites
• Uria aalge4 sites
• Aethia cristatella3 sites
• Aethia pusilla3 sites
• Ardenna grisea3 sites
• Ardenna tenuirostris3 sites
• Canis3 sites
• Erignathus barbatus3 sites
• Fraterculini3 sites
• Fulmarus glacialis3 sites
• Hydrobates leucorhous3 sites
• Lepus arcticus3 sites
• Phalacrocorax pelagicus3 sites
• Rissa tridactyla3 sites
• Shiriyanetta hasegawai3 sites
• Synthliboramphus antiquus3 sites
• Uria onoi3 sites
• Ursus arctos3 sites
• Ursus maritimus3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Uria lomvia, 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.

• Polar bear fossil and archaeological records from the Pleistocene and Holocene in relation to sea ice extent and open water polynyasCrockford, 2022 · Open Quaternary · journal article2
• Pleistocene seabirds from Shiriya, northeast Japan: systematics and oceanographic contextWatanabe et al., 2020 · Historical Biology · journal article2
• Two species of Uria (Aves: Alcidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, northeast Japan, with description and body mass estimation of a new speciesWatanabe et al., 2016 · Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History · journal article1
• Brown bear (Ursus arctos) (9880 ± 35 BP) from late-glacial Champlain Sea deposits at Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Canada, and the dispersal history of brown bearsHarington et al., 2014 · Canadian Journal of Earth Science · journal article1
• A late Pliocene occurrence of the thick-billed murre (Alcidae: Uria lomvia) on St. George Island, Pribilofs, AlaskaOlson, 2013 · Paleontological Journal · journal article1
• Seabirds and Late Pleistocene marine environments in the Northeast Atlantic and the MediterraneanTyrberg, 1999 · Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article1
• A zooarchaeological study at Buldir Island, Western Aleutians, AlaskaLefevre et al., 1997 · Arctic Anthropology · journal article1
• Central Inuit Household Economies: Zooarchaeology, Environmental, and Historical Evidence from Outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, CanadaHenshaw, 1995 · Ph.D. thesis1
• Animal bones from the Late Weichselian in NorwayLie, 1986 · Fauna Norvegica Series A · journal article1

Each of the 11 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.

What may have been alongside itUria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)