Milvago
Daptrius is a genus of birds of prey in the family Falconidae comprising most of the caracaras. All members are endemic to South America, except for the yellow-headed caracara, which is also found in Costa Rica and Panama. The genus includes species previously placed in the genera Milvago and Phalcoboenus.
Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 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
- caracaraPBDB
- Sits inside
- FalconidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Falconidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Falconidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Falconidae
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Milvago 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
7 occurrences- Miocene14%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene71%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Milvago has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Milvago and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Milvago and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
309 taxa- Buteo3 sites
- Coragyps atratus3 sites
- Falco peregrinus3 sites
- Geranoaetus melanoleucus3 sites
- Polyborus plancus3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus2 sites
- Anas bahamensis2 sites
- Ardea alba2 sites
- Arenaria interpres2 sites
- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Bubo virginianus2 sites
- Burhinus superciliaris2 sites
- Calidris himantopus2 sites
- Calidris melanotos2 sites
- Cathartes aura2 sites
- Charadrius semipalmatus2 sites
- Charadrius vociferus2 sites
- Columbina cruziana2 sites
- Dendrocygna autumnalis2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Eudocimus albus2 sites
- Falco femoralis2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Milvago, 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
7 references- Taguatagua 1: New insights into the late Pleistocene fauna, paleoenvironment, and human subsistence in a unique lacustrine context in central Chile1
- The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba1
- Late Miocene continental birds from the Cerro Azul Formation in the Pampean region (central- southern Argentina)1
- A new species of penguin (Spheniscidae: Spheniscus) and other birds from the late Pliocene of Chile1
- Taphonomy of a late Pleistocene carnivore den, Dade County, Florida1
- The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru1
- The late Pleistocene avifauna of La Carolina, southwestern Ecuador1
Each of the 7 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 content2
Picture of Milvago
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Milvago chimango · NHMUK:ZOO:1926.10.25.14
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Daptrius”
- 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 itFalconidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spix 1824