Noel's giant barn owl

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Holotype. Right tarsometatarsus DPUH 1251. Collected March 3, 1968, by Noel González Gotera and Oscar Arredondo. Emended diagnosis. The smallest and least robust of the fossil giant barn owls from the West Indies. Material examined. Cueva de Paredones, Ceiba del Agua, Municipality of Caimito, Artemisa (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Coracoid: nearly complete left (OA 3212, lacking sterno-coracoidal process and procoracoid), nearly complete right (paratype OA 839, lacking sterno-coracoidal process). Humerus: distal end of left (WS 885, juvenile), proximal half of right (OA 3218). Ulna: incomplete left (WS 899, lacking distal end), distal half of left (OA 3016 – 3017), proximal half of right (OA 3210), proximal right (CZACC 400 – 624, lacking olecranon), distal half of right (OA 3022), shaft of right (WS 915). Femur: complete left (WS 913 – 914, both fragmentary), distal half of left (OA 3214), distal left (paratype OA 834, abraded), complete right (OA 3211). Tibiotarsus: distal half of left (OA 3213), distal left (CZACC unnumbered, juvenile), proximal half of right (paratype OA 827). Tarsometatarsus: complete left (WS 18 A), distal half of left (OA 3112), distal left (WS 916, juvenile), incomplete right (OA 829, OA 3113; both lacking distal end), proximal shaft of right (OA 833), proximal right (OA unnumbered), distal right (OA 3119; WS 882, lacking wing of the trochlea for digit IV). Cueva de Sandoval, Vereda Nueva, Municipality of Caimito, Artemisa (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Coracoid: complete left (WS 369), complete right (WS 368, WS 851), sternal half of right (WS 909). Humerus: incomplete left (WS 980, lacking distal end, portions of deltopectoral crest and bicipital surface), proximal left (WS 1112, fragmentary), proximal shaft of left (WS 348), distal half of left (WS 983), shaft of left (WS 343, juvenile), distal shaft of left (WS 863, juvenile), distal left (WS 1108), proximal third of right (CZACC unnumbered), distal half of right (WS 342), distal portion of shaft of right (WS 371 – 372). Ulna: proximal half of left (WS 370), proximal left (WS 906 – 907, lacking olecranon), proximal right (WS 905, lacking most of the articular surface), distal right (WS 950, WS 1111). Femur: incomplete left (WS 373, lacking proximal end; CZACC unnumbered, lacking proximal third), proximal half of left (WS 1032), incomplete right (WS 894 – 895, lacking head; CZACC unnumbered, lacking head and internal condyle), proximal half of right (CZACC unnumbered), proximal right (WS 781; WS 841, juvenile), distal right (WS 1106, fragmentary). Tibiotarsus: incomplete left (WS 839, lacking proximal end, juvenile), distal half of left (WS 345), distal left (WS 902; WS 984, lacking internal condyle), incomplete right (WS 344, lacking distal end), distal right (WS 901; WS 903, lacking anterior portions of the lateral condyle — 904, juvenile). Tarsometatarsus: complete left (WS 897 E) and complete right (WS 898 E) of the same individual, proximal left (WS 911, fragmentary), proximal right (WS 910, lacking inner calcaneal ridge), distal half of right (WS 846, lacking trochleae for digits II and III; CZACC unnumbered), distal right (WS 912, lacking trochlea for digit IV, juvenile). Cueva del Indio, Calabazar, Municipality of Boyeros, Ciudad de La Habana Province, Cuba. — Femur: incomplete right (OA 1027, lacking condyles). Cueva del Túnel, La Salud, Municipality of Quivicán, Mayabeque (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Humerus: distal shaft of left (OA 814), proximal right (WS 295 - 296, both fragmentary), distal shaft of right (WS 291, juvenile). Ulna: proximal left (OA 807), distal left (paratype OA 816), distal right (paratype OA 815). Femur: incomplete left (OA 819, lacking both ends), incomplete right (paratype OA 818, with fragmentary condyles). Tibiotarsus: proximal left (OA 809, lacking inner cnemial crest), distal half of left (WS 136), distal left (paratype OA 812), distal shaft of left (OA 810), proximal half of right (WS 213, lacking outer cotyla), proximal right (WS 214), distal half of right (OA 3118). Tarsometatarsus: complete right (holotype DPUH 1251), medial segment of right (OA 813, OA 821), distal right (OA 817). Cueva de Insunza, La Salud, Municipality of Quivicán, Mayabeque (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Humerus: distal shaft of right (WS 268). Tarsometatarsus: nearly complete left (WS 15, lacking fragments of shaft posteriorly). Cueva del Chicharrón, La Salud, Municipality of Quivicán, Mayabeque (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Carpometacarpus: incomplete left (CZACC unnumbered, lacking metacarpal III). Cuevas Blancas, Aguacate, Municipality of Quivicán, Mayabeque (formerly La Habana) Province, Cuba. — Carpometacarpus: proximal left (CZACC unnumbered, CZACC unnumbered). Tibiotarsus: distal right (CZACC unnumbered). Tarsometatarsus: proximal half of left (CZACC unnumbered, lacking inner calcaneal ridge), distal left (CZACC unnumbered). Cantera cerca de Loma de Mosas, 5 km Northeast of the city of Sancti Spirítus, Sancti Spirítus Province, Cuba. — Femur: proximal fragment of right (OA 3120). Cueva de la Jutía, Loma de los Rubíes, Municipality of Florencia, Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. — Tarsometatarsus: distal left (CZACC unnumbered). Skeleton (Goat Bone) Cave, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. — Coracoid: left (USNM 535720). Drum Cave, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. — Tarsometatarsus: distal half of right (USNM 615828, lacking trochleae for digits II and III), distal left (USNM 615829, lacking trochlea for digit IV). Rat Pocket, Gun Shop Cliff, Two Foot Bay, Barbuda. — Coracoid: humeral end of left (paratype of T. neddi USNM 359245). Femur: distal right (holotype of T. neddi USNM 359240, fragmentary). Additional type material of T. neddi, not listed herein, includes a few pedal and ungual phalanges (see Steadman & Hilgartner 1999).