Emberiza

The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza, the only genus in the family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills that inhabit open and half-open habitats, including deserts, stony drylands, shrubland, savanna, and open taiga forests.

Emberiza

Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/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
Sits inside
EmberizidaePBDB
Diet
granivorePBDB, for Emberizidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Emberizidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Emberizidae

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 25 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 25 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences5.09 Mya11.7 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Emberiza 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

25 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.

Emberiza and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Emberiza and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Emberiza, 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

13 references

Each of the 25 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. 1 further reference is 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.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Emberiza

Credit
Andreas Trepte
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEmberizidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758