Tyto, Billberg, 1828

Suárez, William, 2020, The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba, Zootaxa 4780 (1), pp. 1-53 : 29

Tyto sp.

Referred material. San Felipe I: Proximal end of right tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4656; proximal end of left tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4651; proximal end of left tarsometatarsus without inner calcaneal ridge, MNHNCu 75.4655; distal end of the left tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4657. San Felipe II: Right fragmentary carpometacarpus, MNHNCu 75.4654; distal end of right tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4652.

Comments. The material here referred to Tyto sp., together with additional specimens from cave deposits, represents a new species ( Suárez & Díaz-Franco 2003:375; Suárez 2004b:156), which will be compared, described, and named in a separate paper (Suárez & Olson in press). This constitutes the first record of this taxon for asphalt deposits in Cuba. Fossils of this small barn owl are also known from cave deposits located west of the Cuban archipelago.