Aves - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1922. Remains of birds from caves in the republic of Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 74(4):1-4
Belongs to Tyto according to W. Suárez and S. L. Olson 2015
See also Lambrecht 1933, Wetmore 1922 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Tyto alba, Tyto balearica, Tyto cavatica, Tyto cravesae, Tyto gigantea, Tyto glaucops, Tyto letocarti, Tyto mourerchauvireae, Tyto noeli, Tyto novaehollandiae, Tyto perlata, Tyto pollens
Type specimen: USNM 10746, a limb element (proximal end of left metatarsus). Its type locality is Grotte San Francisco, St. Michel de L’Atalaye, which is in a Pleistocene/Holocene cave siliciclastic in Haiti.
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution: found only at Grotte San Francisco, St. Michel de L’Atalaye
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