The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba
Author
Suárez, William
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-22
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1
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†
Ornimegalonyx
sp.
(
Figure 12
: I–J)
Referred material.
San Felipe
II
: Proximal half of right femur, MNHNCu 75.4714; distal half of fragmentary left femur, MNHNCu 75.4715; proximal fragment of right tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4716; distal fragment of right tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4717.
Description.
Differs from specimens of
Ornimegalonyx oteroi
present in this deposit, and from other fossil localities, by its smaller size. The elongated shaft of the tarsometatarsus in the genus
Ornimegalonyx
(see
Arredondo & Olson 1994
, fig. 1) separates it from
Bubo osvaldoi
Arredondo & Olson, 1994
, a somewhat smaller Cuban strigid owl not identified so far from these tar seeps.
Comments.
Remains of the genus
Ornimegalonyx
of similar size to the specimens recorded herein, are also known from eastern
Cuba
(Suárez unpubl. data).