Buteoninae

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
- hawkPBDB
- Sits inside
- AccipitridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Buteoninae 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
12 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene17%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Buteoninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Buteoninae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Buteoninae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
415 taxa- Athene cunicularia5 sites
- Bubo virginianus5 sites
- Cathartes aura5 sites
- Falco sparverius5 sites
- Tyto alba5 sites
- Accipiter cooperii4 sites
- Antigone canadensis4 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos4 sites
- Bermuteo avivorus4 sites
- Buteo4 sites
- Buteo regalis4 sites
- Buteo swainsoni4 sites
- Buteogallus fragilis4 sites
- Callipepla californica4 sites
- Caracara cheriway4 sites
- Charadrius vociferus4 sites
- Coragyps occidentalis4 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos4 sites
- Corvus corax4 sites
- Falco columbarius4 sites
- Falco mexicanus4 sites
- Falco peregrinus4 sites
- Gymnogyps californianus4 sites
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Buteoninae, 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
8 references- A new genus and species of buteonine hawk from Quaternary deposits in Bermuda (Aves: Accipitridae)4
- A comparison of avian assemblages from individual pits at Rancho La Brea, California2
- Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence1
- The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru1
- An avifauna from the lower Miocene of South Dakota1
- The fossil Birds of California1
- The avifauna associated with human remains at Rancho la Brea, California1
- An additional record for the fossil hawk Urubitinga necta1
Each of the 12 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 Buteoninae
- 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
No 3D scan of Buteoninae 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 itAccipitridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vigors 1824