Accipitriformes

The Accipitriformes are an order of birds that includes most of the diurnal birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, vultures, kites, ospreys and secretary birds, but not falcons or seriemas. The generally nocturnal owls, also considered birds of prey, are a separate order from the accipitriformes.

Accipitriformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AvesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 782 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 782 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 782 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 55 of 782 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 782 occurrencesPleistocene — about 538 of 782 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 24 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 668 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

782 occurrences of Accipitriformes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

782 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

66 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.34°N, 98.24°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°ESheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBecerra — 19.90°N, 99.13°WNamba — 31.12°S, 140.21°ENamba — 31.11°S, 140.14°EVogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°ECaloosahatchee — 27.00°N, 82.00°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WGila Conglomerate — 32.69°N, 109.45°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBannockburn — 44.89°S, 169.84°EBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WAlzey — 49.81°N, 7.84°EAlzey — 49.79°N, 7.98°EOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WLaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Accipitriformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 681 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Accipitriformes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Accipitriformes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 384 sites for Accipitriformes, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

250 references

Each of the 782 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 238 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

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No 3D scan of Accipitriformes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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