Necrastur alacer de Vis, 1892
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
"Necrastur alacer remains unstudied except for in an unpublished thesis by Gaff (2002), wherein it was considered to be distinct from living Australian accipitrids in terms of its small size (intermediate between Hamirostra melanosternon (Gould, 1841) and A. audax) and morphology."
(Mather et al., 2023)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)?
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
QM F1136 (proximal right humerus) (Louys & Price, 2015:558)
QM F5552 (distal right ulna) (Louys & Price, 2015:558)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
De Vis, C. W. (1892). Residue of the extinct birds of Queensland as yet detected. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (2) 6: 437-456.
Other references:
Gaff, P. (2002). The fossil history of the family Accipitridae in Australia. MSc thesis, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. 211 pp (unpublished).
Louys, Julien and Price, Gilbert J. (2015). The Chinchilla Local Fauna: An exceptionally rich and well-preserved Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from fluviatile deposits of south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3): 551-572. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00042.2013
Mather, Ellen K., Lee, Michael S. Y., Fusco, Diana A., Hellstrom, John and Worthy, Trevor H. (2023). Pleistocene raptors from cave deposits of South Australia, with a description of a new species of Dynatoaetus (Accipitridae: Aves): morphology, systematics and palaeoecological implications. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2268780
Rich, Patricia Vickers and van Tets, G. F. (1982). Fossil birds of Australia and New Guinea: their biogeographic, phylogenetic and biostratigraphic input, pp. 235-384. In: P.V. Rich and E.M. Thompson (eds.), The Fossil Vertebrate Record of Australasia. Monash University Offset Printing Unit, Clayton.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.
van Tets, G. F. and Vickers-Rich, Patricia. (1990). An evaluation of de Vis’ fossil birds. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 165-168.
Worthy, Trevor H. and Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T. (2020). An annotated checklist of the fossil birds of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 144(1): 66-108.
Worthy, Trevor H., Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T. and Travouillon, Kenny J. (2024). Checklist of the Fossil Bird Species of Australia. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]
Worthy, Trevor H., Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T. and Travouillon, Kenny J. (2025). Checklist of the Fossil Bird Species of Australia. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 1 March 2025]