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Milvago carbo

Milvago carbo

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Holotype. — Near-complete right tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4569, formerly P 4569 (Suárez & Olson 2003 c: 302, fig. 1: A [anterior], B [medial], C [posterior]; see Herrera-Uria et al. 2015: 114 – 115, not ‘ P 456 ’ [lapsus calami] as appears in Díaz-Franco 2004: 157). Collected in San Felipe II during expeditions conducted in 1998 by the Depto. de Geología y Paleontología, MNHNCu [= Stephen Díaz Franco, Manuel Iturralde Vinent and Reinaldo Rojas Consuegra. Not ‘ W. Suárez, and S. Díaz-Franco’ as indicated by Herrera-Uria et al. 2015: 115. See Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000: 301] (Suárez & Olson 2003 c: 302). Other material. — Notarium: fragmentary, MNHNCu 75.4567. Tibiotarsus: distal ends of left, MNHNCu 75.4568, MNHNCu 75.4570 – 4571. Tarsometatarsus: proximal half of left without part of inner and outer calcaneal ridges, MNHNCu 75.4572; shaft of left, MNHNCu 75.4573; proximal end of right, MNHNCu 75.4574; distal halves of right, MNHNCu 75.4575 – 4576 (latter with abrasion); distal ends of left, MNHNCu 75.4577 – 4578. See Suárez & Olson (2003 c: 303), Díaz-Franco (2004: 157), Herrera-Uria et al. (2015: 115). Type locality. — Las Breas de San Felipe (MLB), c. 5.5 km west of the town of Martí, San Felipe Valley, municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, Cuba (Suárez & Olson 2003 c: 302 – 303; for description of this deposit see Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000). Fig. 5.

Scientific name
Milvago carbo
Family
Falconidae
Order
Falconiformes
Genus
Milvago

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