Cathartidae

Cathartidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
New World vulturePBDB
Sits inside
CathartiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
volantPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 131 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 131 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 131 occurrencesPleistocene — about 103 of 131 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 106 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

131 occurrences of Cathartidae 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

131 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

20 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WPisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WChadron — 40.82°N, 103.73°WLuján — 34.91°S, 58.70°WLuján — 34.27°S, 60.23°WTemblor — 35.30°N, 118.50°WSanta Margarita — 37.01°N, 122.01°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WBecerra — 19.90°N, 99.13°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.08°S, 60.53°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WToro Negro — 28.69°S, 68.31°WAndalhuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°W

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The named rock units Cathartidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cathartidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cathartidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Cathartidae, 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

64 references

Each of the 131 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. 52 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 Cathartidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cathartidae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lafresnaye 1839