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Falco femoralis
Temminck, 1822
GBIF:241079647
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Aplomado Falcon (Halcón Aplomado) Falco femoralis Temminck, 1822, Color Planches, livr. 21, pl. 121 and text.
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 & Olson 2003 b: 73). Direct 14 C dating. — None. For dating of other bird species at MLB, 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. Fossils from Las Breas de San Felipe are the only available material of this falcon in Cuba (Suárez & Olson 2003 b). The species has also been reported from a prehistoric deposit on Middle Caicos, Bahamas (Steadman & Franklin 2020).
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
Referred material. — Carpometacarpus: right without minor metacarpal, MNHNCu 75.4606 (fig. 1 D: right [internal]); right lacking distal end and minor metacarpal, MNHNCu 75.4607. Tibiotarsus: distal end of left, MNHNCu 75.4608. Tarsometatarsus: proximal end of left, MNHNCu 75.4609 (fig. 1 E: right [anterior]). Cited material and figures are from Suárez & Olson (2003 b). Collected on 25 February 2001 by Stephen Díaz Franco and WS, in San Felipe I, area C.
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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