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Pterodroma rupinarum (Saint Helena gadfly petrel)

Reptilia - Procellariidae

Taxonomy
Pterodroma rupinarum was named by Olson (1975). Its type specimen is USNM 176594, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sugarloaf Hill, site 1, which is in a Pleistocene eolian sandstone in Saint Helena.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Pterodroma rupinarum Olson p. 14 figs. Pl 1A

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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
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
RankNameAuthor
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
—PygostyliaChiappe 2002
—Ornithothoraces
—OrnithuromorphaChiappe et al. 1999
subclassOrnithurae
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
—Procellariiformes(Fürbringer 1888)
familyProcellariidaeVigors 1825
genusPterodromaBonaparte 1856
speciesrupinarum

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 rupinarum Olson 1975 [Saint Helena gadfly 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: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12600 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.126 - 0.0117Saint Helena Pterodroma medium sp. (194246 194247) Pterodroma rupinarum (type locality: 176071)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Saint Helena Pterodroma rupinarum (176072 176073 176074 176075 176076 176077) Pterodroma sp. (194245)