Oscaravis olsoni (Arredondo & Arredondo, 2002)
Cuban teratorn, Teratorno Cubano
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, Oscar and Arredondo, C. (2002). Nueva especie de ave (Falconiformes: Teratornithidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba.Poeyana 470-475: 15-21.
Other references:
Orihuela, Johanset. (2019). An annotated list of late Quaternary extinct birds of Cuba. Ornitología Neotropical 30: 57-67.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Suárez, William. (2020). The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba. Zootaxa 4780(1): 1-53. [Abstract]
Suárez, William. (2022). Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(1): 10-74. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
Suárez, William and Emslie, Steven D. (2023). On the correct publication date for the extinct avian family Teratornithidae L. Miller. Zootaxa 5227(1): 143-146. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.8
Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2009). A new genus for the Cuban teratorn (Aves: Teratornithidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122(1): 103-116.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
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