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Morus

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Morus may refer to:

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2480962	https://www.gbif.org/species/2480962
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39679	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39679

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Suliformes : Sulidae : Morus

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	Suliformes	Sharpe 1891
family	Sulidae	Reichenbach 1849
genus	Morus	Vieillot 1816

Common Name

gannet

Scientific Name

Morus Vieillot, 1816

Name Published In

Vieillot, Louis P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Deterville, Paris.: 1-70.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Morus	genus	belongs to Sulidae	stated without evidence	Lambrecht, 1933
Morus	genus	belongs to Sulidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Morus	genus	belongs to Sulidae	stated without evidence	Chandler, 1990
Morus	genus	belongs to Sulidae	stated with evidence	Clements et al., 2017
Morus	genus	belongs to Sulidae	stated without evidence	Hastings and Dooley, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

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)

H. Howard. 1936. A new fossil bird locality near Playa del Rey, California, with description of a new species of sulid. Condor 38(5):211-214

Common Name(s)

Gannet

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Moris reyana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.30 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Morus atlanticus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Morus avitus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Morus bassanus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Northern Gannett	16	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Morus capensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cape Gannet	3	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Morus humeralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	4.90 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Morus lompocanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	13.8 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Morus loxostylus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Morus magnus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Morus peninsularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Morus peruvianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Morus recentior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	4.90 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Morus reyanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Morus serrator species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Australasian Gannet	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Morus vagabundus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1816	Morus Vieillot
1933	Moris Lambrecht p. 286
1936	Moris Howard p. 213
1955	Morus Brodkorb p. 8
1958	Morus Howard p. 3
1968	Morus Howard p. 12
1972	Moris Howard p. 6
1978	Morus Howard p. 16

Year	Name and Author
1985	Morus Olson p. 203
1988	Morus Carroll
1990	Morus Chandler p. 112
2001	Morus Olson and Rasmussen p. 261
2003	Morus Stucchi p. 86
2017	Morus Clements et al.
2017	Morus Hastings and Dooley p. 83

References

Howard H. (1936) A new fossil bird locality near Playa del Rey, California, with description of a new species of sulid, Condor 38 5, 211-214

Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024

Brodkorb P. (1955) The avifauna of the Bone Valley Formation, Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigations 14, 1-57

Howard H. (1958) Miocene sulids of southern California, Contributions in Science 25, 1-15

Howard H. (1968) Tertiary birds from Laguna Hills, Orange County, California, Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 142, 1-21

Howard H. (1972) Type specimens of avian fossils in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science, 1-27

Howard H. (1978) Late Miocene marine birds from Orange County, California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 290, 1-26

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

Olson S. L., Rasmussen P. C. (2001) Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 233-365

Stucchi M. (2003) Los Piqueros (Aves: Sulidae) de la Formacion Pisco, Peru, Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica de Peru 95, 75-91

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

Hastings A. K., Dooley A. C. (2017) Fossil-collecting from the middle Miocene Carmel Church Quarry marine ecosystem in Caroline County, Virginia, The Geological Society of America Field Guide 47, 77-88 doi:10.1130/2017.0047(03)

Analyse - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

web search (AJR) - 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)

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Vieillot, L. P.; Saunders, H. (1883). Vieillot's Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. The Willughby Society. 70 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

SOF (2007) Holarktis Fåglar, version 2. SOF:s Taxonomikommittés officiella lista över Holarktis fåglar - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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