Titanohierax gloveralleni Wetmore, 1937
Bahaman titan hawk
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Steadman & Franklin, 2020:Table 3)
Distribution
Little Exuma, Long Island & New Providence, Bahamas, West Indies
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: MCZ 2257 (tarsometatarsus lacking proximal end)
Other material:
MCZ 2258 (proximal end of carpometacarpus)
UF 25640 (nearly complete ulna)
UF 25641 (shaft of ulna)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wetmore, Alexander. (1937). Bird Remains from Cave Deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80(12): 427-441.
Other references:
Morgan GS (1994) Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands. In Brunt MA and Davies JE, eds, The Cayman Islands: N atural History and Biogeography, pp. 465–508. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
Olson, Storrs L. and Hilgartner, William B. (1982). Fossil and Subfossil Birds from the Bahamas. pp. 22-56. In: Olson, Storrs L. (ed). Fossil vertebrates from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Palaeobiology, No. 48: 1-68.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Steadman, David W. and Franklin, Janet. (2020). Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.2013368117 [Supplementary Information]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.