Caracara plancus (Miller)

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 170-171

566. Caracara plancus (Miller)

Quaternary – MG, PI, RS

Polyborus tharus – Winge 1887: 34.

Falconines [?] [in part] – Goeldi 1894: 76.

Polyborus tharus – Lambrecht 1933: 750.

Caracara plancus – Brodkorb 1964: 296.

Caracara plancus [ Polyborus tharus ] – Mones 1986: 85. Polyborus plancus – Cuello 1988: 39.

Caracara plancus – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 494.

Winge (1887) reported bones of several individuals from Lapa da Escrivânia V,most of young or very young birds, represented by the coracoid, humerus, ulna, femur, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus. All are slightly smaller than that observed in two recent skeletons. There is also a tarsometatarsus of a very young individual from Lapa da Escrivânia XI.

Accipitridae [?] [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198. Falconidae [?] [in part?] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198. Accipitridae [?] [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328. Falconidae [?] [in part?] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328.

Polyborus plancus – Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

Polyborus plancus – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least one adult individual is present in the material .

Falconiformes [?; in part] – Rosa 2001: C00011.

Polyborus plancus – Rosa 2006b: 231.

Rosa (2006b) reported three bones (two from level 2 and one from level 4) from the Chácara do Leão (RS-LC-96)

site in Palmares do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. The material is deposited in the IAP/Unisinos collection.

Polyborus plancus – Silva et al. 2006: 338.

Silva et al. (2006) reported this species from the RS- RG-49 site in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. The material is deposited in the IAP/Unisinos collection.