Buteo

Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings. In the Old World, members of this genus are called "buzzards", but "hawk" is used in the New World. As both terms are ambiguous, buteo is sometimes used instead, for example, by the Peregrine Fund.

Buteo

Morbakka · CC BY 4.0 · 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
hawkPBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 170 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 170 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 170 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 170 occurrencesPleistocene — about 122 of 170 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 153 occurrences31.8 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

170 occurrences of Buteo 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

170 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

12 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WWhite River — 40.90°N, 104.87°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.75°N, 101.47°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WOkeechobee — 27.53°N, 80.47°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WForest Bed — 52.85°N, 1.47°EAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WLaguna de Tagua Tagua — 34.50°S, 71.17°W

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The named rock units Buteo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 157 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buteo and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Buteo and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Buteo, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

81 references

Each of the 170 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. 69 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 Buteo

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Morbakka
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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Buteo rufofuscus · l-jz:JZ:5

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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. de Lacepède 1799