Gyps melitensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GypsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gyps melitensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Gyps melitensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gyps melitensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Athene cretensis2 sites
- Columba2 sites
- Columba oenas2 sites
- Columba palumbus2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Corvus monedula2 sites
- Garrulus glandarius2 sites
- Scolopax rusticola2 sites
- Turdus2 sites
- Tyto alba2 sites
- Accipiter gentilis1 site
- Aegolius funereus1 site
- Apus melba1 site
- Branta ruficollis1 site
- Buteo buteo1 site
- Candiacervus devosi1 site
- Candiacervus listeri1 site
- Candiacervus reumeri1 site
- Cecropis daurica1 site
- Chloris chloris1 site
- Columba livia1 site
- Emberiza1 site
- Erithacus rubecula1 site
- Falco eleonorae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gyps melitensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gyps melitensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gyps melitensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGyps through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1890