Caracara major is a large and extinct species of bird in the family Falconidae of the Late Pleistocene period.[1] Caracara major is noted for being extremely large in size and was found throughout what is now the nation of Uruguay.[2] Following the discovery of the species Caracara major by Jones et al., 2013., a new fossil taxon in the same genus that was also located in Uruguay was described, said to be larger than Caracara major.[3]
| Caracara major Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Genus: | Caracara |
| Species: | †C. major
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| †Caracara major Jones et al., 2013
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Caraca major". Recently Extinct Species. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Jones, Washington William; Rinderknecht, Andrés; Migotto, Rafael; Blanco, R. Ernesto (January 2013). "Body Mass Estimations and Paleobiological Inferences on a New Species of Large Caracara (Aves, Falconidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (1): 151–158. doi:10.2307/23353814.
- ^ Jones, Washington William; Cenizo, Marcos; Agnolin, Federico; Rinderknecht, Andrés; Blanco, R. Ernesto (July 2015). "The largest known falconid". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 277 (3): 361–372. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2015/0514. Retrieved 16 November 2024.