Baryphthengus Cabanis & Heine, 1860

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 159

Baryphthengus Cabanis & Heine 527. Baryphthengus ruficapillus (Vieillot)

Quaternary – MG

Alcedo aff. amazonae [in part] – Lund (in Winge 1887): 45. Momotus sp. (naeppe M. ruficapillus ) [in part] – Winge 1887: 11. Momotus (Baryphthongus) ruficapillus (et aff.) – Winge 1887: 44–45.

[ Momotus ] ruficapillus – Goeldi 1894: 248.

Momotus (Baryphthongus) ruficapillus – Lambrecht 1933: 774. Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Storer 1960: 79.

Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Fisher 1967: 751.

Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Brodkorb 1971: 254. Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Mones 1986: 97.

Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Cuello 1988: 59.

Baryphthengus ruficapillus – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 494.

Winge (1887) reported an ulna and the distal end of a tibiotarsus from Lapa da Escrivânia V, a humerus from Lapa da Escrivânia XI, a humerus of an old individual and the coracoid of a young one from Lapa do Marinho II, two ulnae of two individuals from “various caves” [26], several bones of unknown origin, fragments of recent age [28], and the proximal end of a humerus from“a cave near Sumidouro” (other than Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro). The last one was determined as “ Alcedo aff. amazonae ” in Lund’s catalog and is very similar to that in Chloroceryle amazona . The total material is represented by the maxilla, coracoid, sternum, humerus, ulna, pelvis, femur, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus. Winge also reported a carpometacarpus from Lapa do Capão Seco, which may belong to another species.

The locality“a cave near Sumidouro” was erroneously presented as Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro by Brodkorb (1971), Cuello (1988), and Sick (1984a, 1993, 1997).