Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck)

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 94

252. Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck)

Quaternary – MG, RS

Rhynchotus rufescens – Winge 1887: 18.

Rhinchotus rufescens [sic] – Goeldi 1894: 440.

Rhynchotus rufescens – Lambrecht 1933: 730.

Rhynchotus rufescens – Brodkorb 1963: 195.

Rhynchotus rufescens – Mones 1986: 75.

Rhynchotus rufescens – Cuello 1988: 27.

Rhynchotus rufescens – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 490.

Winge (1887) reported bones of several individuals from Lapa da Escrivânia V, a humerus from Lapa da Escrivânia IX, two bones from Lapa da Escrivânia XI, and more bones from Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro. The material is represented by the coracoid, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpometacarpus, first phalanx of the major digit of the wing, femur, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus.

“Perdigão ( Rhynchotus sp. )” – Klamt 2005: 47.

Klamt (2005) reported this species from the Röpke (RS-JC-56) “B” site in Ibirama, Rio Grande do Sul, dated 470±50 years BP ( Ferrasso and Schmitz 2010). He cited Mentz Ribeiro (1996) as the original source for the record, but we could not access this reference.