Species profile
Bahaman Caracara
Caracara creightoni
Quick answer
Holotype. — Incomplete left carpometacarpus, UF 3153 (Brodkorb 1959: 353, pl. 1, fig. 7 [lateral]). Collected 28 August 1958 by J. C. Dickinson and W. Auffenberg (Brodkorb 1959: 353, 1964: 292). Type locality. — Banana Hole, New Providence Island, Bahamas (Brodkorb 1959: 351; see Olson & Pregill 1982: 4 – 5). Referred material. — Skull: incomplete, OA 3928 (Suárez & Olson 2001 b: 502, figs. 1 B [lateral], 2 B [dorsal]); rostrum, MNHNCu 75.4742 (Suárez 2020 a: 32, fig. 13: A [lateral], B [dorsal]). Notarium: fragmentary, MNHNCu 75.4579. Humerus: proximal end of right, WS 1035 (Suárez & Olson 2003 c: 305, fig. 2 C [anconal]); shaft of right, MNHNCu 75.4759; left lacking proximal end, MNHNCu 75.4817 (Suárez 2020 a: 32, fig. 13 C [palmal]); proximal half of left, MNHNCu 75.4818 (Suárez 2020 a: 32, fig. 13 D [palmal]). Ulna: left, MPSG 75 (Suárez & Olson 2001 b: 502, fig. 3 A: left [internal]). Carpometacarpus: right lacking minor metacarpal, MPSG 77 (Suárez & Olson 2001 b: 502, fig. 3 B: left [internal]); left, MNHNCu 75.4819 (Suárez 2020 a: 32, fig. 13 E [internal]); proximal half of left, MPSG 110. Femur: left, WS 1933 (Suárez & Olson 2003 c: 305, fig. 2 A [anterior], Jones et al. 2013, fig. 5 *: 5 [posterior]); distal end of left, WS 0209; proximal half of right, WS 0142; proximal end of right, WS 587. Tibiotarsus: left lacking internal condyle, MPSG 79 (Suárez & Olson 2001 b: 502, fig. 3 D: left [anterior]); distal end of right lacking posterior rim of internal condyle, MPSG 83; distal halves of right, MNHNCu 75.4852 – 4853; distal ends of right, MNHNCu 75.4854 – 4856; shaft of left, MNHNCu 75.4851; distal ends of right, MNHNCu 75.4584 – 4585; distal ends of left, MNHNCu 75.4580 – 4583. Tarsometatarsus: right, MNHNCu 75.4820 (Suárez 2020 a: 32, fig. 13: D [anterior]) and 75.4827 – 4828; proximal halves of right, MNHNCu 75.4844 – 4847; proximal ends of right, MNHNCu 75.4848 – 4850; right lacking proximal ends, MNHNCu 75.4829 – 4831; distal end of right, MNHNCu 75.4839; left, MPSG 103 (Suárez & Olson 2001 b: 502, fig. 3 C: left [anterior]); left without distal end, MNHNCu 75.4840; proximal ends of left, MNHNCu 75.4841 – 4843; distal halves of left, MNHNCu 75.4832 – 4835, MPSG 106; distal ends of left, MNHNCu 75.4592 – 4593, MNHNCu 75.4836 – 4838; distal ends of right, MNHNCu 75.4586 – 4591.
- Scientific name
- Caracara creightoni
- Family
- Falconidae
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Genus
- Caracara
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