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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

 

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