Cueva del Túnel, La Salud: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Cuba
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Echimyidae
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Boromys torrei
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Capromyidae
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Capromys nana
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Capromys sp.
Desmarest 1822
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Geocapromys columbianus
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Mammalia
- Nesophontidae
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Nesophontes micrus
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Cubacyon transversidens n. gen., n. sp.
Arredondo and Varona 1974
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Varona 1984 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Acratocnus sp.
Anthony 1916
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Miocnus antillensis
Matthew 1931
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recombined as Acratocnus antillensis | |||||||
Microcnus gliriformis
Matthew 1931
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recombined as Neocnus gliriformis | |||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo (Geochelone) cubensis
Leidy 1868
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recombined as Chelonoidis cubensis | |||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylus antillensis
Varona 1966
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Varona 1984 | ||||||
synonym of Crocodylus rhombifer | |||||||
Reptilia
- Accipitriformes
- Accipitridae
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Aquila borrasi
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Reptilia
- Strigiformes
- Strigidae
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Ornimegalonyx oteroi
Arredondo 1958
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Reptilia
- Strigiformes
- Tytonidae
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Tyto noeli n. sp.
Arredondo 1972
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Cuba | State/province: | Mayabeque |
Coordinates: | 22.9° North, 82.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 22.9° North, 82.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 153777 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Mannion, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-01-14 08:31:51 | Last modified: | 2018-07-17 22:31:24 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-14 08:31:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
66345. | 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] |
Secondary references:
49831 | L. S. Varona. 1984. Los cocodrilos fosiles de Cuba (Reptilia: Crocodylidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 20(1-2):13-18 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |