Species profile
Buteogallus irpus
Buteogallus irpus
Quick answer
Holotype. — Left tarsometatarsus lacking proximal end, USNM PAL 299573 (Suárez & Olson 2021: figs. 1: A [anterior], B [medial], C [distal], D [posterior], E [lateral], 2: A [anterior]). Collected on 24 April 1978 by Charles Woods, under 60 cm of red earth, at the type locality (Suárez & Olson 2021; see also Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28). Other material. — Partial skeleton: WS 365 (see Suárez 2004 a: Figs. 1 – 2), including: one cervical (axis) and three thoracic vertebrae, seven fragments of ribs, fragmentary pelvis (fig. 2 E [lateral]), proximal fragmentary right humerus (fig. 2 A [palmar], B [anconal]), distal fragments of left humerus (fig. 2 C [palmar]), segment of shaft of left ulna (fig. 2 D [palmar]), left fragmentary femur without distal end (fig. 2 G [anterior]), proximal and distal fragmentary ends of right femur (fig. 2 F – F’ [anterior]), shaft of left tibiotarsus (fig. 2 I [posterior]), proximal right fibula (fig. 2 H [internal]), left tarsometatarsus lacking inner calcaneal ridge, part of the metatarsal facet, wing of trochlea II, and posterior surface of trochlea III (fig. 1 A [anterior], fig. 2 J [anterior], K [proximal], L [posterior], Suárez & Olson 2008: fig. 1 C [anterior], 2021: fig. 2 B [anterior]), left digit I, phalanx 1 (fig. 2 M [dorsal]) and phalanx 2 (fig. 2 N [lateral]), left digit III, phalanx 2 and phalanx 3, right digit III, phalanx 4 (fig. 2 O [lateral]), right digit IV, phalanx 4. Collected on 2 March 1995 by WS. Cited figures are from Suárez (2004 a), other than where indicated. Type locality. — Cueva de las Abejas (18 ° 01 ’ N, 71 ° 67 ’ W; elevation c. 20 m), near Cabo Rojo, 8 km south-east of Pedernales, Pedernales province, Dominican Republic. Quaternary, probably late Pleistocene, but not directly dated (Suárez & Olson 2021: 260; see Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28, Steadman et al. 2019: 321).
- Scientific name
- Buteogallus irpus
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Buteogallus
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