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Palaeocircus ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4850352	https://www.gbif.org/species/4850352
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	365137	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=365137

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Accipitriformes : Pandionidae : Palaeocircus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification

Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	Linnaeus 1758
—	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
—	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
—	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
—	Osteichthyes	Huxley 1880
—	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	Ahlberg 1991
—	Tetrapoda	Jaekel 1911
—	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
—	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
—	Batrachosauria	Efremov 1946
—	Cotylosauria	Cope 1880
—	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
—	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia	Olson 1947
—	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
—	Diapsida	Osborn 1903
—	Eosuchia	Broom 1914
—	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
—	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
—	Archosauria	Cope 1869
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
—	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
—	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
—	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
—	Dinosauria	Owen 1842
—	Saurischia	Seeley 1888
—	Theropoda	Marsh 1881
—	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
—	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
—	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
order	Accipitriformes	Vieillot 1816
family	Pandionidae	Sclater and Salvin 1873
genus	Palaeocircus	Milne-Edwards 1871
Unranked entries are considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Scientific Name

Palaeocircus Milne-Edwards, 1871

Name Published In

Rech. anat. Ois. Foss., 2 [Text], 1869-1871

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

K. A. v. Zittel. 1890. Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)]

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palaeocircus cuvieri ✝ species	accepted		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Palaeocircus Milne-Edwards
1890	Palaeocircus Zittel p. 843
1933	Palaeocircus Lambrecht p. 405
1970	Palaeocircus Brunet p. 44

References

Zittel K. A. v. , Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)], xii-900

Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024

Brunet J. (1970) Oiseaux de l'Éocène supérieur du bassin de Paris, Annales de Paléontologie. Vertébrés 56, 3-57

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rech. anat. Ois. Foss., 2 [Text], 1869-1871 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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