Circus eylesi
Eyles's harrier is an extinct bird of prey that was endemic to New Zealand.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa · 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
- Eyles's harrierPBDB
- Sits inside
- CircusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Circus eylesi on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene15%
- Holocene85%
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.
Circus eylesi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Circus eylesi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Anas chlorotis6 sites
- Fulica prisca6 sites
- Gallirallus australis6 sites
- Strigops habroptila6 sites
- Apteryx australis5 sites
- Corvus moriorum5 sites
- Harpagornis moorei5 sites
- Nestor meridionalis5 sites
- Anas superciliosa4 sites
- Apteryx4 sites
- Chenonetta finschi4 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae4 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis4 sites
- Emeus crassus4 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides4 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus4 sites
- Turnagra capensis4 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Ardenna grisea3 sites
- Aythya novaeseelandiae3 sites
- Biziura delautouri3 sites
- Callaeas cinereus3 sites
- Circus approximans3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Circus eylesi, 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
3 references- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand3
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand2
- Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Circus eylesi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Circus eylesi 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
- 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 itCircus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scarlett 1953