Phaethon lepturus
species · Daudin 1802 · accepted · extant
55 fossil sites · 12 countries
Lived when
Quaternary
0.129–0 million years ago
Found where
12 countries
0 rock formations
Fossil record
55 sites
0 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about less than a million years, from 0.129 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Phaethon lepturus was named in 1802 (Daudin 1802) — 224 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 12 countries.
- This group is not extinct — living birds belong inside it.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).