Caracara sp. nov. 'Buenos Aires'

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Jones, Washington W., Cenizo, Marcos M., Agnolin, Federico L., Rinderknecht, Andrés and Blanco, R. Ernesto. (2015). The largest known falconid. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 277(3:) 361-372. [Abstract]

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)]

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