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Synthliboramphus

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Description

Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific. The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, "to compress", and rhamphos, "bill". "Murrelet" is a diminutive of "murre", a word of uncertain origins, but which may imitate the call of the common guillemot.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthliboramphus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2481347	https://www.gbif.org/species/2481347
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	67706	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67706

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : Synthliboramphus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
-	Panalcidae	Smith 2011
family	Alcidae	Leach 1820
genus	Synthliboramphus	Brandt 1837

Scientific Name

Synthliboramphus Brandt, 1837

Name Published In

Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St Pétersbourg, 2 (22)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Synthliboramphus	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Chandler, 1990
Synthliboramphus	genus	belongs to Laridae	implied	Peterson, 1999
Synthliboramphus	genus	belongs to Alcinae	stated without evidence	Smith, 2011
Synthliboramphus	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Clements et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (86%)

First Recorded Appearance

7.25 - 5.33 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Charadriiformes)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Peterson. 1999. Zoological Nomenclature Resource (Zoonomen)

Common Name(s)

ウミスズメ, Ancient Murrelets

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthliboramphus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Synthliboramphus antiquus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ancient Murrelet	17	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Synthliboramphus craveri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Craveri's Murrelet			0 Ma Extant
Synthliboramphus hypoleucus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Guadalupe Murrelet	6	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Synthliboramphus rineyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	4.90 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Synthliboramphus scrippsi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Scripps's Murrelet			0 Ma Extant
Synthliboramphus wumizusume species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Japanese Murrelet			0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Synthliborhamphus Brandt, 1837	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : *Synthliborhamphus*
Micruria Ogilvie-Grant, 1898	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : *Micruria*
Endomychura Oberholser, 1899	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : *Endomychura*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1837	Synthliboramphus Brandt p. 347
1899	Endomychura Oberholser
1985	Endomychura Olson p. 183
1988	Endomychura Carroll
1990	Synthliboramphus Chandler p. 142
1992	Synthliboramphus Guthrie p. 323
1999	Synthliboramphus Peterson
2011	Synthliboramphus Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14
2014	Synthliboramphus del Hoyo et al.
2017	Synthliboramphus Clements et al.

References

Peterson A. P. (1999) , Zoological Nomenclature Resource (Zoonomen)

Olson S. L. (1985) The fossil record of birds, Avian Biology VIII, 79-256

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Chandler R. M. (1990) Fossil birds of the San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, Blancan, San Diego County, California, Ornithological Monographs 44, 73-161

Guthrie D. A. (1992) A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California, Science Series (Los Angeles) 36, 319-327

Smith N. A. (2011) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae), ZooKeys 91, 1-116

del Hoyo J., Collar N. J., et al (2014) HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines, 1-904

Clements J. F., Schulenberg T. S., et al (2017) , The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St Pétersbourg, 2 (22) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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