Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1954
Pleistocene Cuban owl, Giant cursorial owl, Giant Cuban owl, Cuban giant owl Búho Gigante Cubano
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ornimegalonyx arredondoi Arredondo, 1958
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1958). Aves gigantes de nuestro pasado prehistórico: El Cartero Cubano. La Habana, Ano v. 17, no. 7 (July), p. 10-12, unnumbered text-figs.
Other references:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1954). Toda una fauna extinguida en las montafias de Pinar del Rio: Bohemia, v. 46, no. 35 (August 29), p. 46-48, p. 92, unnumbered text-figs.
Arredondo, Oscar. (1955). Contribuciones a la paleontológia de la Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba: Sociedad Espeleol6gica de Cuba Boletin (impermanently stenciled periodical), v. 1, no. 2 (December), p. 3-13, unnumbered text-figs.
Arredondo, Oscar. (1956). Como identificar los restos óseos de algunos mamiferos Cubanos extinguidos que resultan de suma importancia en las investigaciones arqueológicas y antropológicas: Sociedad Espeleol6gica de Cuba Boletin (impermanently stenciled periodical), v. 2, no. 4 (February, corrected in longhand to no. 3, Enero), p. 3-38, unnumbered text-figs.
Arredondo, Oscar. (1975). Distribución geográfica y descripción de algunos huesos de Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958 (Strigiformes: Strigidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba. Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Caracas, 35(101):133-190.
Arredondo, Oscar. (1982). Los Strigiformes fosiles del Pleistoceno Cubano. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 37: 33-55.
Arredondo O and Olson SL (1976) The great predatory birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27, 169–187
Brodkorb, Pierce. (1961). Recently described birds and mammals from Cuban caves. Journal of Paleontology 35(3): 633-635.
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. (2020a). The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba. Zootaxa 4780(1): 1-53. [Abstract]
Suárez, William. (2020b). Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arredondo. Bull. B.O.C. 140(4): 387-392.
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
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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