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Buteo quadratus (Bahama red-shouldered hawk)
Taxonomy
Calohierax quadratus was named by Wetmore (1937). Its type specimen is MCZ 2256, a limb element (tarsometatarsus, distal end), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Upper Pasture Cave, Little Exuma, which is in a Pleistocene cave limestone in the Bahamas.
It was synonymized subjectively with Buteo lineatus by Olson (2000); it was recombined as Buteo quadratus by Oswald and Steadman (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Buteo lineatus by Olson (2000); it was recombined as Buteo quadratus by Oswald and Steadman (2018).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Calohierax quadratus Wetmore p. 429 figs. 1-3 |
| 1956 | Calohierax quadratus Wetmore p. 44 |
| 2018 | Buteo quadratus Oswald and Steadman p. 366 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Buteo quadratus Wetmore 1937 [Bahama red-shouldered hawk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Naka 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Bahamas | Calohierax quadratus (type locality: 194589) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (New Providence Island) | Calohierax quadratus (194588) |