NEW RECORDS OF STORKS (CICONIIDAE) FROM QUATERNARY ASPHALT DEPOSITS IN CUBA
@inproceedings{Surez2003NEWRO, title={NEW RECORDS OF STORKS (CICONIIDAE) FROM QUATERNARY ASPHALT DEPOSITS IN CUBA}, author={William Su{\'a}rez and Storrs L. Olson}, year={2003} }
Abstract Storks were previously known in Cuba only from the living Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) and two bones of the extinct species Ciconia maltha from Cienfuegos Province. Newly explored Quaternary tar seep deposits in Matanzas Province have yielded fossils of M. americana, the extinct wood stork M. wetmorei, and an unidentified species of Ciconia smaller than C. maltha. These specimens provide the first verifiable fossil record of M. americana anywhere, the first of M. wetmorei outside of…
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