Bubo

The American horned owls and the Old World eagle-owls make up the genus Bubo, at least as traditionally described. The genus name Bubo is Latin for owl.

Bubo

Photographed by uploader · Public Domain · 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
eagle-owlPBDB
Sits inside
StrigidaePBDB
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 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 68 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 68 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 54 of 68 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 9 of 68 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 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 48 occurrences5.09 Mya11.7 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Bubo 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

68 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

6 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.21°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.27°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Bubo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bubo and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bubo and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,678 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Bubo, 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

47 references

Each of the 68 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. 35 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 content3

Picture of Bubo

Credit
Photographed by uploader
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bubo africanus · l-jz:JZ:14

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumeril 1806