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Cathartes emsliei

Suarez & Olson, 2020

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Distribution. — Cave, asphalt and sinkhole deposits in west and central Cuba (see Appendix). Artemisa. Caimito: ACP (WS unpubl.), ASA (Suárez 2004 a: 124 [‘ a small species of vulture’], Suárez & Olson 2020 b: 338). Mayabeque. San José de las Lajas: YCI (Jiménez Vázquez & Valdés Ruiz 1995: 62 [‘ Cathartes aura ’], Rojas Consuegra et al. 2012: 10 [‘ Cathartes sp. ’, after being re-identified by WS (= ‘ C. aura ’ of Jiménez Vázquez & Valdés Ruiz 1995)], Suárez & Olson 2020 b: 335). Matanzas. Martí: MLB = type locality (Suárez 2020 a: 14 [‘ Cathartes sp. ’], Suárez & Olson 2020 b: 336 [‘ Cathartes emsliei sp. nov. ’]). Villa Clara. Corralillo: VSM (WS unpubl.). Direct 14 C dating. — None. For dating of other bird species at the type locality, see Antigone cubensis, Gymnogyps varonai and Ornimegalonyx oteroi, and of associated extinct mammals (Parocnus browni = 11,880 ± 420 to 4,960 ± 280 years 14 C BP), see Jull et al. (2004) and Steadman et al. (2005). Notes. — Uncommon in Quaternary deposits on the main island. Postcranial elements smaller compared to specimens of living C. aura (Suárez 2001 b, 2004 a, Suárez & Olson 2020 b). Scarce material of C. emsliei from cave deposits in west Cuba, and from sinkhole deposits in Villa Clara province, central Cuba, are present at CZACC and AC, respectively (WS unpubl.). Emslie’s Vulture is comparable in size to the extinct, tiny Wingegyps cartellei Alvarenga & Olson, 2004, from the Pleistocene of Brazil (see Nascimento & Silveira 2020: 502 – 503), but the latter is similar to Gymnogyps condors rather than to Cathartes (Alvarenga & Olson 2004: 3).

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