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Phoebastria albatrus (short-tailed albatross)

Reptilia - Diomedeidae

Taxonomy
Diomedea albatrus was named by Pallas (1769). It is extant.

It was recombined as Phoebastria albatrus by Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Broughton (2004), Kilmer and Steadman (2016), Clements et al. (2017), Watanabe et al. (2020) and Watanabe et al. (2020).

Synonyms
  • Diomedea howardae was named by Chandler (1990). Its type specimen is SDSNH 25245/3158-C, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is SDNHM 3158C, which is in a Blancan marine horizon in the San Diego Formation of California.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Phoebastria albatrus by Olson and Rasmussen (2001).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1769Diomedea albatrus Pallas
1940Diomedea albatrus Wetmore p. 8
1942Diomedea albatrus Miller and DeMay p. 73
1956Diomedea albatrus Wetmore p. 10
1990Diomedea howardae Chandler
1992Diomedea albatrus Guthrie p. 320
2001Phoebastria albatrus Olson and Rasmussen p. 251
2004Phoebastria albatrus Broughton p. 14 fig. 3B
2016Phoebastria albatrus Kilmer and Steadman p. 14 fig. 12
2017Phoebastria albatrus Clements et al.
2020Phoebastria albatrus Watanabe et al. p. 7
2020Phoebastria albatrus Watanabe et al. p. 686 fig. 8A,C,E,F,I,J

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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)
familyDiomedeidaeGray 1840
genusPhoebastriaReichenbach 1853
speciesalbatrus(Pallas 1769)

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.

Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 [short-tailed albatross]
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Invalid names: Diomedea howardae Chandler 1990 [synonym]
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, Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Blancan to the top of the Holocene or 4.90000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (35 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Phoebastria albatrus (52582)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (California) Diomedea howardae (177608 177992 177995 178004 178010 178016 178017 178018 178019)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan Phoebastria albatrus (79697)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (California) Phoebastria albatrus (176093 176094)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Bermuda Phoebastria albatrus (94308 122305 194469 194470)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Florida) Phoebastria albatrus (195048 195049)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Aomori) Phoebastria albatrus (101897)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Diomedea albatrus (20639)
Rancholabrean (glacial)0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Diomedea albatrus (20624)
Rancholabrean - Holocene0.3 - 0.0USA (California) Diomedea albatrus (84904)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Diomedea albatrus (59063 120827 125234 125235 125236) Phoebastria albatrus (176102 215552)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Diomedea albatrus (194880) Phoebastria albatrus (194908)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Alaska) Diomedea albatrus (177178 177179) Phoebastria albatrus (70585)