New fossil records of terrestrial vertebrates for Las Llanadas, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

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Published Oct 1, 2017
DOI https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i11.26
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Ernesto Aranda
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba
Joao G. Martínez López
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Cuba
Osvaldo Jiménez
Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Carlos Alemán Luna
Centro de Servicios Ambientales, Cuba
Lázaro William Viñola López
University of Montana, USA

Abstract

The paleontological deposit Las Llanadas is a spring rich in organic matter. At the beginning of the 20th century, studies of the site reports fossil materials of sloths, crocodiles, tortoises, and hutias. Two species of sloths, Acratocnus antillensis and Neocnus gliriformis, were new to science. In the present work, we present new fossil records of Peltophryne empusus, Osteopilus septentrionalis (anurans), Cyclura nubila (reptile), Tyto alba, Buteogallus borrasi (birds), and Boromys ofella (mammal). Recent bones of Lithobates catesbeianus and Capromys pilorides were found among the fossils. Of 2030 pieces, only 3% could be identified taxonomically, due to the high level of fragmentation.

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fossils, vertebrates, Quaternary, Cuba

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Aranda, E., Martínez López, J. G., Jiménez, O., Alemán Luna, C., & Viñola López, L. W. (2017). New fossil records of terrestrial vertebrates for Las Llanadas, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (11), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i11.26

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