Emberizidae
The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza, the only genus in the family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills that inhabit open and half-open habitats, including deserts, stony drylands, shrubland, savanna, and open taiga forests.
Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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 buntingPBDB
- Sits inside
- PasseriformesPBDB
- Diet
- granivorePBDB
- Life habit
- volantPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB
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.
31 occurrences of Emberizidae 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
31 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene77%
- Holocene20%
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.
Emberizidae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Emberizidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
432 taxa- Emberiza12 sites
- Turdus12 sites
- Corvus monedula9 sites
- Erithacus rubecula9 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus9 sites
- Scolopax rusticola8 sites
- Chloris chloris7 sites
- Columba7 sites
- Columba oenas7 sites
- Tyto alba7 sites
- Athene cretensis6 sites
- Alauda arvensis5 sites
- Buteo buteo5 sites
- Coccothraustes coccothraustes5 sites
- Columba livia5 sites
- Columba palumbus5 sites
- Corvus5 sites
- Falco eleonorae5 sites
- Garrulus glandarius5 sites
- Otus scops5 sites
- Passeriformes5 sites
- Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax5 sites
- Sturnus5 sites
- Turdus iliacus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Emberizidae, 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
19 references- The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece8
- A catalogue of British Pleistocene birds identified by Colin JO Harrison and stored in the Natural History Museum, London, (Department of Palaeontology)3
- The Middle Pleistocene avifauna of Spinagallo Cave (Sicily, Italy): preliminary report3
- Holocene vertebrate assemblages provide the first evidence for the presence of the barn owl (Tytonidae, Tyto alba) on Socotra Island (Yemen)2
- Avian fossil assemblages at the onset of the LGM in the eastern Alps: A palaecological contribution from the Rio Secco Cave (Italy)1
- A 9,000 Year History of Seal Hunting on Lake Baikal, Siberia: The Zooarchaeology of Sagan-Zaba II1
- New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site1
- Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai cave site of Yakutia, eastern Siberia1
- Fossil birds of the Ardis Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene, South Carolina1
- The First Representative Vertebrate Fauna from the Late Miocene of Southern European Russia1
- Plio-Pleistocene fossil vertebrates of Monte Tuttavista (Orosei, Eastern Sardinia, Italy), an overview1
- Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania)1
Each of the 31 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. 7 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 Emberizidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andreas Trepte
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Emberizidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Emberiza”
- Licence
- 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 itPasseriformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vigors 1831)