Skuas

Stercorariidae

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Stercorariidae (skuas) is a family of bird.

EOL has data for 32 attributes, including:

first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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5.333 million years ago
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
- Definition: The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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marine habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000569
- Definition: A habitat that is in or on a sea or ocean containing high concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (typically >35 grams dissolved salts per litre).
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last appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilLast
- Definition: The last appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Holocene Epoch
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Holocene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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skeletal tissue composition
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_1000106
- Definition: The composition of a skeletal tissue.
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hydroxylapatite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255
- Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).
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trophic level
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicLevel
- Definition: The position an organism occupies in a food chain.
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carnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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skuas includes 1 child:

Stercorarius Brisson 1760

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