Species profile
Gigantohierax itchei
Gigantohierax itchei
Quick answer
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.
- Scientific name
- Gigantohierax itchei
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Genus
- Gigantohierax
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