Abstract
Abstract "Falco" ramenta Wetmore 1936 is redescribed and moved to a new genus as Pediohierax ramenta (Wetmore). In addition to the holotypical distal end of the tarsometatarsus, this species is now known from a complete tarsometatarsus, humerus, and coracoid from mid-Miocene (Late Hemingfordian and Early Barstovian) fossil localities in the Sheep Creek and Olcott formations, northwestern Nebraska. Pediohierax n. gen. is the primitive sister group of the Falconinae. The earliest fossil records now known of the Falconinae are a species of? Falco from the late Miocene of Idaho and Falco medius from the late Miocene of the Ukrainian S.S.R.
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