Haliaeetus

Mandcrobertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

Sits inside

AccipitridaePBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae

Life habit

volantPBDB, for Accipitridae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae

• Miocene1%
• Pleistocene80%
• Holocene19%

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.

Where Haliaeetus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Corvus corax24 sites
• Branta canadensis21 sites
• Tyto alba19 sites
• Anas platyrhynchos18 sites
• Buteo jamaicensis18 sites
• Ardea herodias15 sites
• Passeriformes15 sites
• Antigone canadensis14 sites
• Larus14 sites
• Accipitridae13 sites
• Anas13 sites
• Anser caerulescens13 sites
• Phalacrocorax penicillatus13 sites
• Podiceps nigricollis13 sites
• Buteo12 sites
• Cathartes aura12 sites
• Corvus brachyrhynchos12 sites
• Equus12 sites
• Falco sparverius12 sites
• Gymnogyps californianus12 sites
• Aquila chrysaetos11 sites
• Chendytes lawi11 sites
• Gavia immer11 sites
• Numenius americanus11 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Haliaeetus, 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.

• Birds from Sime del Elefante, Atapuerca, Spain: palaeoecological implications in the oldest human bearing levels of the Iberian PeninsulaNúñez-Lahuerta et al., 2021 · Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia · journal article8
• Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel IslandGuthrie, 2005 · Sixth California Islands Symposium. Institute of Wildlife Studies and National Park Service · journal article6
• Prehistoric human impacts on California birds: evidence from the Emeryville shellmoumd avifaunaBroughton, 2004 · Ornithological Monographs · serial monograph5
• Pleistocene non-passeriform landbirds from Shiriya, northeast JapanWatanabe et al., 2018 · Acta Palaeontologica Polonica · journal article3
• Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania)Gál, 2003 · Archaeofauna · journal article3
• Pleistocene and prehistoric birds of south-west BritainHarrison, 1987 · Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society · journal article3
• The fossil Birds of CaliforniaMiller and DeMay, 1942 · University of California Publications in Zoology · journal article3
• The avifauna of the Pleistocene in FloridaWetmore, 1931 · Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections · journal article3
• Bird bones from Jettböle I, a site in the Neolithic Åland archipelago in the northern BalticMannermaa, 2002 · Acta zoologica cracoviensia · journal article2
• A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, CaliforniaGuthrie, 1992 · Science Series (Los Angeles) · journal article2
• The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, GreeceWeesie, 1988 · Palaeovertebrata · serial monograph2
• A comparison of avian assemblages from individual pits at Rancho La Brea, CaliforniaHoward, 1962 · Contributions in science · journal article2

Each of the 70 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. 28 further references are 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.

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. Savigny 1809