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Caracara cheriway (crested caracara)
Taxonomy
Falco cheriway was named by Jacquin (1784). It is extant.
It was recombined as Polyborus cheriway by Hay (1930) and Wetmore (1931); it was recombined as Caracara cheriway by Steadman and Mead (2010), Steadman et al. (2015) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Polyborus cheriway by Hay (1930) and Wetmore (1931); it was recombined as Caracara cheriway by Steadman and Mead (2010), Steadman et al. (2015) and Clements et al. (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1784 | Falco cheriway Jacquin |
| 1930 | Polyborus cheriway Hay p. 321 |
| 1931 | Polyborus cheriway Wetmore p. 31 |
| 1938 | Polyborus prelutosus Howard |
| 1940 | Polyborus prelutosus Wetmore p. 40 |
| 1942 | Polyborus prelutosus Miller and DeMay p. 103 |
| 1956 | Caracara prelutosus Wetmore p. 48 |
| 1969 | Caracara prelutosa Howard p. 5 |
| 1992 | Polyborus plancus prelutosus Guthrie p. 322 |
| 2010 | Caracara cheriway Steadman and Mead p. 433 |
| 2015 | Caracara cheriway Steadman et al. p. 557 |
| 2017 | Caracara cheriway Clements et al. |
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Caracara cheriway Jacquin 1784 [crested caracara]
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†Polyborus prelutosus prelutosus Howard 1938
Invalid names: Caracara prelutosa Howard 1938 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Naka 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Rancholabrean or 0.12900 to 0.01200 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Caracara cheriway (20495) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Caracara prelutosa (20491) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Caracara prelutosa (71670) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Polyborus prelutosus (20595) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | Venezuela (Zulia) | Caracara cheriway (63515) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Mexico) | Caracara prelutosa (192627) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Polyborus cheriway (79630) Polyborus prelutosus (190077 218989) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Polyborus cheriway (154771) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Polyborus cheriway (74292) |