Aves - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1937. Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80:427-441
Belongs to Titanohierax according to J. A. Oswald and D. W. Steadman 2018
See also Morgan 1994, Olson and Hilgartner 1982, Wetmore 1937 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MCZ 2257, a set of limb elements (right tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Upper Pasture Cave, Little Exuma, which is in a Pleistocene cave limestone in the Bahamas.
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (2 collections), Cayman Islands (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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