Aegolius funereus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- boreal owlPBDB
- Sits inside
- AegoliusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Strigidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Strigidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Strigiformes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Strigidae
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.
8 occurrences of Aegolius funereus 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
8 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.
Aegolius funereus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Aegolius funereus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Turdus6 sites
- Athene cretensis5 sites
- Columba5 sites
- Corvus monedula5 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus5 sites
- Accipiter gentilis4 sites
- Columba oenas4 sites
- Erithacus rubecula4 sites
- Falco eleonorae4 sites
- Falco tinnunculus4 sites
- Garrulus glandarius4 sites
- Meridiocichla salotti4 sites
- Otus scops4 sites
- Scolopax rusticola4 sites
- Sturnus4 sites
- Tyto alba4 sites
- Apus melba3 sites
- Buteo buteo3 sites
- Chloris chloris3 sites
- Columba palumbus3 sites
- Corvus3 sites
- Emberiza3 sites
- Eremophila alpestris3 sites
- Fringilla3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Aegolius funereus, 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
4 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece5
- Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate1
- The late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) avifauna of Little Box Elder Cave, Wyoming1
- Evidence of a Boreal Avifauna in Middle Tennessee during the Late Pleistocene1
Each of the 8 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
Media content2
Picture of Aegolius funereus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itAegolius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)