Falco vespertinus

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
- Red-footed falconPBDB
- Sits inside
- FalcoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Falconidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Falconidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Falconidae
- Mass
- 150 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Falco vespertinus 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene83%
- Holocene17%
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.
Falco vespertinus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Falco vespertinus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Athene noctua5 sites
- Corvus monedula5 sites
- Corvus corone4 sites
- Coturnix coturnix4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Turdus viscivorus4 sites
- Anatidae3 sites
- Chloris chloris3 sites
- Falco tinnunculus3 sites
- Hirundo rustica3 sites
- Perdix perdix3 sites
- Phasianidae3 sites
- Picus viridis3 sites
- Pyrrhocorax3 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus3 sites
- Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax3 sites
- Accipiter gentilis2 sites
- Accipitridae2 sites
- Alectoris graeca2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Bos primigenius2 sites
- Canis lupus2 sites
- Capreolus capreolus2 sites
- Cervus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Falco vespertinus, 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
6 references- Late Pleistocene fossil birds from Buso Doppio del Broion Cave (North-Eastern Italy): implications for palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate1
- The bird assemblage from the Middle Palaeolithic level I of Arbreda Cave: A taphonomic story1
- New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site1
- Bird remains from Curata and Bordu Mare caves (Romania)1
- Biostratigraphy of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in Corsica and the role of man in the Holocene faunal turnover1
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary1
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 Falco vespertinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Falco vespertinus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFalco through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1766