Titanohierax
| Titanohierax Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | †Titanohierax Wetmore, 1937 |
| Species: | †T. gloveralleni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Titanohierax gloveralleni Wetmore, 1937
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Titanohierax gloveralleni was an extinct hawk species known from fossils found in Cuba, Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and the Bahamas.
Description[]
Titanohierax was a very large hawk, with a measured fore-claw length of 57 mm (2.2 in) and an estimated weight of around 7.3 kg (16 lb), making roughly equal in size to the females of the largest living eagles. This raptor was most likely an apex predator.
Taxonomy[]
The extinct crab-hawk Buteogallus borrasi was formerly placed in Titanohierax genus with T. gloveralleni. T. gloveralleni's closest living relatives are the modern, still-extant species of crab-hawks in Buteogallus.[1]
References[]
- Suarez, William (2004). "The Identity of the Fossil Raptor of the Genus Amplibuteo (Aves: Accipitridae) from the Quaternary of Cuba" (PDF). Caribbean Journal of Science. 40 (1): 120–125.
- ^ Darren Naish. "Titan-hawks and other super-raptors". Science Blogs. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
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- Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
- Extinct birds of the Caribbean
- Accipitridae
- Prehistoric bird genera
- Extinct monotypic bird genera
- Birds of Hispaniola
- Birds of Cuba
- Birds of the Bahamas
- Extinct animals of Cuba
- Extinct animals of the Dominican Republic
- Extinct animals of Haiti
- Birds described in 1937
- Fossil taxa described in 1937
- Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore
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