Where: Mayabeque, Cuba (22.9° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 82.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. Arredondo. 1972. Nueva especie de ave fósil (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno superior de Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 29:415-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153777: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.01.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham and Kateryn Pino
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Acratocnus sp., "Miocnus antillensis" = Acratocnus antillensis, "Microcnus gliriformis" = Neocnus gliriformis
Acratocnus sp. Anthony 1916 edentate
"Miocnus antillensis" = Acratocnus antillensis Matthew 1931 edentate
"Microcnus gliriformis" = Neocnus gliriformis Matthew 1931 edentate | |
Boromys torrei Allen 1917 spiny rat | |
Nesophontes micrus placental | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
Aves | |
Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo 1958 Cuban giant owl | |
Tyto noeli n. sp.
Tyto noeli n. sp. Arredondo 1972 Noel's giant barn owl | |
Aquila borrasi eagle | |
Reptilia | |
"Crocodylus antillensis" = Crocodylus rhombifer2
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"Testudo (Geochelone) cubensis" = Chelonoidis cubensis
"Testudo (Geochelone) cubensis" = Chelonoidis cubensis Leidy 1868 turtle |