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Gigantohierax itchei
Suarez, 2020
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Itche’s Eagle (Águila de Itche) Gigantohierax itchei Suárez, 2020 a, Zootaxa 4780: 25.
Suárez, William (2022): Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1): 10-74, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
Distribution. — Asphalt deposits in west Cuba (see Appendix). Matanzas. Martí: MLB (Suárez 2020 a: 25). Direct 14 C dating. — None. For dating of other bird species at the type locality, see Antigone cubensis, Gymnogyps varonai and Ornimegalonyx oteroi, and of associated extinct mammals (Parocnus browni = 11,880 ± 420 to 4,960 ± 280 years 14 C BP), see Jull et al. (2004) and Steadman et al. (2005). Notes. — Very rare. Unknown from other Quaternary deposits in Cuba. This taxon is c. 29 % smaller than Gigantohierax suarezi. The holotype, MNHNCu 75.4869, was for some time held in the same collection under the incorrect catalogue number P 4569, preoccupied by material of Milvago carbo (see below).
Suárez, William (2022): Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1): 10-74, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
Holotype. — Distal third of right tarsometatarsus lacking trochlea IV, MNHNCu 75.4869 (Suárez 2020 a: 25, fig. 11: M [anterior], N [medial], O [posterior], P [distal]). Collected in San Felipe II, during 25 – 28 November 1998 by members of the Depto. de Geología y Paleontología, MNHNCu (see ‘ Type locality’). Other material. — Femur: proximal end of fragmentary right, MNHNCu 75.4725 (Suárez 2020 a: 25, fig. 11: J [anterior], K [posterior], L [lateral]). Type locality. — Las Breas de San Felipe (MLB), c. 5.5 km west of the town of Martí, San Felipe Valley, municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, Cuba (Suárez 2020 a: 25; for description of this deposit see Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000). Fig. 5.
Suárez, William (2022): Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1): 10-74, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
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Figure 5. Las Breas de San Felipe (MLB), Martí, western Cuba. Type locality of †Coragyps seductus Suárez, †Cathartes emsliei Suárez & Olson, †Gigantohierax itchei Suárez, †Buteogallus royi Suárez, †Buteo sanfelipensis Suárez, †Milvago carbo Suárez & Olson and †M. diazfrancoi Suárez.
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