Aegypiinae

Aegypiinae is one of two subfamilies of Accipitridae that are referred to as Old World vultures, the other being the Gypaetinae. They are not closely related to the Gypaetinae, and are instead a sister group to the serpent-eagles (Circaetinae).

Aegypiinae

JerryFriedman · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Old World vulturePBDB
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.

Miocene — about 6 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 25 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.1–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.2–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–633 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence633 ka–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences16.3 Mya11.7 ka19 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Aegypiinae 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

37 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.

Found in

8 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°ESheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WLiushu — 35.45°N, 103.63°EDrewsey — 43.75°N, 118.10°WPalm Springs — 32.91°N, 116.21°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°W

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The named rock units Aegypiinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aegypiinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aegypiinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Aegypiinae, 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

27 references

Each of the 37 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. 15 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aegypiinae

Credit
JerryFriedman
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aegypiinae was found in Sketchfab.

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

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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 itAccipitridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.