Aegypius monachus
Ghasem bavi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- cinereous vulturePBDB
- Sits inside
- AegypiusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Mass
- 243 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Aegypius monachus 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
7 occurrences- Miocene14%
- Pleistocene57%
- Holocene29%
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.
Aegypius monachus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Aegypius monachus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Falco tinnunculus4 sites
- Buteo buteo3 sites
- Corvus monedula3 sites
- Haliaeetus albicilla3 sites
- Oryctolagus cuniculus3 sites
- Ovis3 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus3 sites
- Accipiter gentilis2 sites
- Accipiter nisus2 sites
- Alectoris rufa2 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos2 sites
- Athene cretensis2 sites
- Canis familiaris2 sites
- Cervus elaphus2 sites
- Columba2 sites
- Columba livia2 sites
- Columba palumbus2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Falco peregrinus2 sites
- Felis catus2 sites
- Gallus2 sites
- Lepus2 sites
- Lyrurus tetrix2 sites
- Meles meles2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aegypius monachus, and this reads all of them. 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
6 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece2
- Entre veados e ovelhas, um dromedário e uma baleia de permeio: arqueozoologia em Mértola desde a Idade do Ferro até ´Época Medieval1
- Das faunas às populações – Relexos islâmicos do Castelo de Paderne1
- New records of fossil birds of prey from the Miocene of Kenya1
- Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania)1
- La grotte de l'Observatoire à Monaco1
Each of the 7 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. 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.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aegypius monachus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghasem bavi
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aegypius monachus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAegypius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)