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A new buzzard (Aves, Accipitridae) from the late Pliocene of Argentina
Fecha
2021-10Registro en:
Degrange, Federico Javier; Tambussi, Claudia Patricia; Taglioretti, Matias Luciano; Scaglia, Fernando A.; A new buzzard (Aves, Accipitridae) from the late Pliocene of Argentina; Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Paleobiology; Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 66; 4; 10-2021; 779-787
0567-7920
1732-2421
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Degrange, Federico Javier
Tambussi, Claudia Patricia
Taglioretti, Matias Luciano
Scaglia, Fernando A.
Resumen
We describe a new species of a large buzzard (Accipitridae), Buteo dondasi sp. nov. from the late Pliocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina represented by an incomplete left hind limb, including a distal fragment of tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, fragment of os metatarsale I, and toes I and II. The new taxon exhibits characteristics of the crown group Accipitridae and the shape of the tarsometarsus allows its assignment to the genus Buteo. The new species represents the very first record of a representative of a non-scavenging diurnal bird of prey for the Chapadmalalan and one of the largest accipitrids (~ 2.3 kg) known for Argentina.