Species profile
Craves's giant barn owl
Tyto cravesae
Quick answer
Holotype. Associated postcranial elements of a single individual MNHNCu 75. 590 (original numbers in collection of William Suárez are indicated in parentheses), consisting of the proximal half of a left humerus (WS 1026 E ″), proximal end of a right ulna (WS 1114 E ″), nearly complete right carpometacarpus (WS 1027 E ″), and a nearly complete right femur (WS 1025 E ″). Collected by William Suárez on 5 June 1998. Type locality and age. Cueva de Paredones, about 3 km SW of Ceiba del Agua, Municipality of Caimito, Artemisa (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba (see Arredondo 1961, 1970, 1971, 1982, 1984; Brodkorb 1969; Morgan & Ottenwalder 1993; Gutiérrez 2010). The type material was collected within the cave and near the place known as “ Salón del Pozo ” (see Morgan & Ottenwalder 1993), in an amoeboid-shaped patch of red clay matrix (ca. 50 cm in its greatest diameter) in a wall cavity about 1.5 m from the floor of the cave. Quaternary, probably late Pleistocene but not dated (see Morgan & Ottenwalder 1993 for discussion of the age of deposits in Cueva de Paredones). This is the type locality of other Cuban fossil birds such as Pulsatrix arredondoi Brodkorb, Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo), Ornimegalonyx “ minor ” Arredondo, and Oscaravis olsoni (Arredondo & Arredondo) (see Brodkorb 1969; Arredondo 1971, 1976, 1982, 1984; Arredondo & Arredondo 2002 b, Suárez & Olson 2009).
- Scientific name
- Tyto cravesae
- Family
- Tytonidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Genus
- Tyto
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