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Diomedea

Reptilia - Diomedeidae

Taxonomy

Diomedea was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Diomedea exulans. It is the type genus of Diomedeidae.

It was assigned to Procellariidae by Mlikovsky (2002); and to Diomedeidae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1943), Brodkorb (1955), Wetmore (1956), Howard (1966), Brodkorb (1967), Howard (1968), Howard (1972), Howard (1978), Olson and James (1982), Howard (1982), Olson (1985), Olson (1985), Howard and Barnes (1987), Carroll (1988), Chandler (1990), Guthrie (1992), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).

Species

D. amsterdamensis, D. epomophora, D. exulans (type species), D. milleri, D. nigripes, D. rumana, D. thyridata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Diomedea Linnaeus
1930	Diomedea Hay p. 287
1933	Diomedea Lambrecht p. 273
1940	Diomedea Wetmore p. 8
1943	Diomedea Wetmore p. 66
1955	Diomedea Brodkorb p. 7
1956	Diomedea Wetmore p. 10
1966	Diomedea Howard p. 2
1967	Diomedea Brodkorb p. 108
1968	Diomedea Howard p. 5
1972	Diomedea Howard p. 3
1978	Diomedea Howard p. 4
1982	Diomedea Howard p. 3
1982	Diomedea Olson and James p. 32
1985	Diomedea Olson p. 124
1987	Diomedea Howard and Barnes p. 3
1988	Diomedea Carroll
1990	Diomedea Chandler p. 96
1992	Diomedea Guthrie p. 320
2002	Diomedea Mlikovsky p. 80
2017	Diomedea Clements et al.
2020	Diomedea Worthy and Nguyen p. 88

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Aequornithes
—	Feraequornithes
superorder	Procellariimorphae
—	Procellariiformes	(Fürbringer 1888)
family	Diomedeidae	Gray 1840
genus	Diomedea

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.

G. Diomedea Linnaeus 1758

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Diomedea amsterdamensis Roux et al. 1983 [Amsterdam albatross]

Diomedea epomophora Lesson 1825 [royal albatross]

Diomedea exulans Linnaeus 1758 [wandering albatross]

†Diomedea milleri Howard 1966

†Diomedea nigripes Audubon 1839

†Diomedea rumana Grigorescu and Kessler 1988

†Diomedea thyridata Wilkinson 1969

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.44000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma

Collections (29 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	USA (Oregon)	D. sp. (216962)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	Mexico (Baja California)	D. sp. (52183)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	USA (California)	D. milleri (13297 59059) D. sp. (197289) D. sp., D. milleri (19595)
Langhian - Serravallian	15.97 - 11.62	USA (California)	D. sp. (121152)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	Romania	D. rumana (60280)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	USA (California)	D. sp. (13300 50069)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Australia (Victoria)	D. thyridata (46167)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Chile (Atacama)	D. sp. (55535)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	South Africa (Cape)	D. sp. (176419)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	USA (North Carolina)	Phoebastria nigripes (52582)
Blancan	4.9 - 1.8	USA (California)	D. sp. (177992 178008 178013)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	USA (California)	D. sp., D. nigripes (20639)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (California)	D. sp. (190889)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	USA (Hawaii)	D. sp. (110076)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	French Southern Territories	D. sp., D. amsterdamensis (194621)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Pitcairn	D. epomophora (193789)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Antarctica	D. exulans (90111)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	New Zealand	D. epomophora (198081 198218 198219 198221) D. sp. (195151)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Australia (Macquarie Island)	D. exulans (194606)