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
Boromys torrei
Mammalia - Rodentia - Capromyidae
Capromys nana
Capromys sp. Desmarest 1822
Geocapromys columbianus
Mammalia - Nesophontidae
Nesophontes micrus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cubacyon transversidens n. gen., n. sp. Arredondo and Varona 1974
Varona 1984
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Acratocnus sp. Anthony 1916
Miocnus antillensis Matthew 1931
recombined as Acratocnus antillensis
Microcnus gliriformis Matthew 1931
recombined as Neocnus gliriformis
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo (Geochelone) cubensis Leidy 1868
recombined as Chelonoidis cubensis
Reptilia
Crocodylus antillensis Varona 1966
Varona 1984
synonym of Crocodylus rhombifer
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Aquila borrasi
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Strigidae
Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo 1958
Reptilia - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto noeli n. sp. Arredondo 1972
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]