Titanohierax gloveralleni
Titanohierax gloveralleni, also known as the Bahama eagle, is a large species of extinct hawk from the Late Quaternary of the Caribbean. Remains of the animal have been found on multiple islands in The Bahamas. The animal is known from a handful of bones found across multiple islands, including a tarsometatarsus, partial metacarpal, and nearly complete right ulna. The animal was described based on the former two by Alexander Wetmore in 1937, with all other currently referred material being assigned by Storrs Olson and colleagues in 1982.
No picture of Titanohierax gloveralleni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Titanohierax gloveralleni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Bahama eaglePBDB
- Sits inside
- TitanohieraxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Titanohierax gloveralleni on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Pleistocene64%
- Holocene36%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Titanohierax gloveralleni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Titanohierax gloveralleni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Buteo quadratus2 sites
- Colaptes2 sites
- Corvus nasicus2 sites
- Geotrygon chrysia2 sites
- Melanerpes superciliaris2 sites
- Patagioenas squamosa2 sites
- Turdus plumbeus2 sites
- Tyto pollens2 sites
- Accipiter striatus1 site
- Accipiter striatus velox1 site
- Alsophis cantherigerus1 site
- Anolis conspersus1 site
- Aristelliger praesignis1 site
- Aves1 site
- Brachyphylla nana1 site
- Burhinus nanus1 site
- Caprimulgidae1 site
- Capromyinae1 site
- Capromys1 site
- Caracara creightoni1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Chlorostilbon ricordii1 site
- Coccyzus minor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Titanohierax gloveralleni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands1
- Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas1
- Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Titanohierax gloveralleni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Titanohierax gloveralleni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Titanohierax gloveralleni was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTitanohierax through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetmore 1937