Buteo platypterus
Uncredited · 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
- broad-winged hawkPBDB
- Sits inside
- ButeoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Buteo platypterus 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- Pleistocene71%
- 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.
Buteo platypterus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Buteo platypterus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
404 taxa- Podilymbus podiceps4 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus3 sites
- Botaurus lentiginosus3 sites
- Buteo jamaicensis3 sites
- Colaptes auratus3 sites
- Colinus virginianus3 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos3 sites
- Ectopistes migratorius3 sites
- Erethizon dorsatum3 sites
- Gallinula chloropus3 sites
- Ionornis martinica3 sites
- Meleagris gallopavo3 sites
- Mephitis mephitis3 sites
- Microtus pinetorum3 sites
- Neotoma floridana3 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
- Perimyotis subflavus3 sites
- Procyon lotor3 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus3 sites
- Sciurus carolinensis3 sites
- Scolopax minor3 sites
- Spatula discors3 sites
- Toxostoma rufum3 sites
- Accipiter striatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Buteo platypterus, 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
7 references- The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
- A Pleistocene avifauna from Haile, Florida1
- Notes on fossil and subfossil birds1
- A record for the black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, in Martinique1
- Bird remains from the West Indies1
- The avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida1
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 content2
Picture of Buteo platypterus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itButeo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vieillot 1823)