Pterodroma nigripennis
species · (Rothschild 1893) · accepted · extant
15 fossil sites · 4 countries
Lived when
Quaternary
0.0117–0 million years ago
Found where
4 countries
0 rock formations
Fossil record
15 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 0.0117 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.
- Pterodroma nigripennis was named in 1893 ((Rothschild 1893)) — 133 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 4 countries.
- This group is not extinct — living birds belong inside it.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).