The largest known falconid

The caracaras represent a characteristic faunal element of the Neotropics. Recently, a very large fossil species Caracara major from late Pleistocene of Uruguay was considered the largest known falconid. In the present contribution we describe a larger specimen belonging to a Caracara form from the...

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Autores principales: Jones, W.W., Cenizo, M.M., Agnolin, F.L., Rinderknecht, A., Blanco, R.E.
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body mass estimation
Caracara
Falconidae
Fossil birds
Pleistocene extinctions
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00777749_v277_n3_p361_Jones
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Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires
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spelling todo:paper_00777749_v277_n3_p361_Jones2023-10-03T14:54:16Z The largest known falconid Jones, W.W. Cenizo, M.M. Agnolin, F.L. Rinderknecht, A. Blanco, R.E. body mass estimation Caracara Falconidae Fossil birds Pleistocene extinctions The caracaras represent a characteristic faunal element of the Neotropics. Recently, a very large fossil species Caracara major from late Pleistocene of Uruguay was considered the largest known falconid. In the present contribution we describe a larger specimen belonging to a Caracara form from the late Pleistocene of the Buenos Aires province. The body mass estimation of this specimen clearly exceeds that of living caracaras species and, represents the largest known falconid (lowest body mass estimation nearly of 4500 grams). The diversification and extinction of large-sized caracaras may be correlated with the abundance of very large mammals, which may provide abundant large carcasses as a food resource, in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene. ©2015 E. Schweizerbart?sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00777749_v277_n3_p361_Jones
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topic body mass estimation
Caracara
Falconidae
Fossil birds
Pleistocene extinctions
spellingShingle body mass estimation
Caracara
Falconidae
Fossil birds
Pleistocene extinctions
Jones, W.W.
Cenizo, M.M.
Agnolin, F.L.
Rinderknecht, A.
Blanco, R.E.
The largest known falconid
topic_facet body mass estimation
Caracara
Falconidae
Fossil birds
Pleistocene extinctions
description The caracaras represent a characteristic faunal element of the Neotropics. Recently, a very large fossil species Caracara major from late Pleistocene of Uruguay was considered the largest known falconid. In the present contribution we describe a larger specimen belonging to a Caracara form from the late Pleistocene of the Buenos Aires province. The body mass estimation of this specimen clearly exceeds that of living caracaras species and, represents the largest known falconid (lowest body mass estimation nearly of 4500 grams). The diversification and extinction of large-sized caracaras may be correlated with the abundance of very large mammals, which may provide abundant large carcasses as a food resource, in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene. ©2015 E. Schweizerbart?sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany.
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