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Pterodroma cahow (Bermuda petrel)

Reptilia - Procellariidae

Taxonomy
Aestrelata cahow was named by Nichols and Mowbray (1916). It is extant.

It was recombined as Pterodroma cahow by Wetmore (1960), Wetmore (1962), Olson and Hilgartner (1982), Olson (2004), Clements et al. (2017), Oswald and Steadman (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Aestrelata cahow Nichols and Mowbray
1960Pterodroma cahow Wetmore p. 2
1962Pterodroma cahow Wetmore p. 16
1982Pterodroma cahow Olson and Hilgartner p. 23
2004Pterodroma cahow Olson p. 576 fig. 1A,B
2017Pterodroma cahow Clements et al.
2018Pterodroma cahow Oswald and Steadman p. 366

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
—Procellariiformes(Fürbringer 1888)
familyProcellariidaeVigors 1825
genusPterodromaBonaparte 1856
speciescahow(Nichols and Mowbray 1916)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pterodroma cahow Nichols and Mowbray 1916 [Bermuda petrel]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene - Holocene0.774 - 0.0Bermuda Pterodroma cahow (194467)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117Bermuda Pterodroma cahow (194468)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Bahamas (New Providence Island) Pterodroma cahow (194588)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Bahamas Pterodroma cahow, Puffinus puffinus (145366)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Bermuda Pterodroma cahow (82260 90684)