Aves - Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Parent taxon: Procellariidae according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Alcover 1989, Burney et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Case 1904, Chandler 1990, Guthrie 1992, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Howard 1968, Howard 1972, Howard 1978, Howard and Barnes 1987, Lambrecht 1933, Miller and Bowman 1958, Mlikovsky 2002, Morgan 1994, Olson 1975, Olson 1985, Olson 1985, Olson 1985, Olson and James 1982, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Watanabe et al. 2020, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1956, Wetmore 1962, Worthy 1997 and Worthy and Grant-Mackie 2003
Sister taxa: Aphrodroma, Ardenna, Argyrodyptes, Bulweria, Calonectris, Daption, Diomedeoides, Eopuffinus, Fulmarinae, Fulmarus, Halobaena, Macronectes, Oestrelata, Pachyptila, Pachyptilinae, Pagodroma, Pelecanoides, Primodroma, Procellaria, Procellariinae, Pseudobulweria, Pterodroma, Pterodromoides, Puffininae, Puffinini, Thalassoica
Subtaxa: Puffinus (Puffinus) Puffinus antiquus Puffinus aquitanicus Puffinus assimilis Puffinus bailloni Puffinus barnesi Puffinus calhouni Puffinus conradi Puffinus eyermani Puffinus felthami Puffinus gavia Puffinus holeae Puffinus huttoni Puffinus inceptor Puffinus kanakoffi Puffinus lherminieri Puffinus micraulax Puffinus mitchelli Puffinus nativitatis Puffinus nestori Puffinus opisthomelas Puffinus pacificoides Puffinus parvus Puffinus persicus Puffinus priscus Puffinus puffinus Puffinus spelaeus Puffinus tedfordi Puffinus yelkouan
Type: Procellaria puffinus
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of American Samoa (1 collection), Antigua and Barbuda (3), Australia (4), the Bahamas (4), Barbados (1), Bermuda (4), Cayman Islands (7), Cook Islands (2), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (1), French Polynesia (25), French Southern Territories (1), Gibraltar (2), Greece (2), Guam (1), Italy (4), Japan (5), Madagascar (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mexico (1), Montserrat (1), New Zealand (18), Northern Mariana Islands (4), Norway (1), Palau (7), Pitcairn (11), Portugal (1), Reunion (4), Saint Helena (10), the Seychelles (2), Solomon Islands (5), Spain (3), Tonga (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (14: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Yemen (1)
• Blancan of United States (8: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of France (2), Mexico (4), United States (13: California, Maryland, North Carolina)
• Neogene of Italy (1)
Total: 201 collections including 240 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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