Cathartes emsliei Suárez & Olson, 2020
Cuban vulture (proposed), Emslie’s vulture, Aura de Emslie
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene or Holocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2020). A new fossil vulture (Cathartidae: Cathartes) from Quaternary asphalt and cave deposits in Cuba. Bull. B.O.C. 140(3): 335-343.
Other references:
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