Caracara seymouri Suárez & Olson, 2014

Seymour's caracara (proposed)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Ecuador and Peru

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2014). A new fossil species of small crested caracara (Aves: Falconidae: Caracara) from the Pacific lowlands of western South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 127(2): 299-310. [Abstract]

Other references:

Campbell, K. E., Jr. (1979). The Non-Passerine Pleistocene Avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, Northwestern Peru. Life Sciences Contribution Royal Ontario Museum 118: 1-203. [erroneously attributes material to P. plancus, which was used for the description of the species C. seymouri (Suárez & Olson, 2014)]

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/18586/caracara-seymouri

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