Ciconia sp.

Suárez, William, 2022, Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1), pp. 247-248 : 24

7. Ciconia sp.

Referred material.— Tibiotarsus: distal end of right, MNHNCu 75.4599, formerly P4599 ( Suárez & Olson 2003a: 151, fig. 1E [distal], Suárez 2020a: 9, fig. 4A [distal]). Collected 25 February 2001 by WS & Stephen Díaz Franco in San Felipe I, C area ( Suárez & Olson 2003a: 151).

Distribution.—Asphalt deposits in west Cuba (see Appendix). Matanzas. Martí: MLB ( Suárez & Olson 2003a, Suárez 2020a).

Direct 14 C dating .—None. For dating of other bird species at MLB, see Antigone cubensis , Gymnogyps varonai and Ornimegalonyx oteroi , and of associated extinct mammals ( Parocnus browni = 11,880 ± 420 to 4,960 ± 280 years 14 C BP), see Jull et al. (2004) and Steadman et al. (2005).

Notes.—Extremely rare. Known from Cuba by a single specimen of a species smaller than C. maltha ( Suárez & Olson 2003a: 151). Orihuela (2019: 58–59) incorrectly indicated ‘ type material’ and ‘ type locality’ for Ciconia sp. , which is an undescribed species. Navarro (2021: 58, table 4) erroneously listed Ciconia sp. as the only representative of the genus in Cuba (see ‘Notes’ under C. maltha ), indicating it was ‘originally identified as Jabiru mycteria ( Lichtenstein, 1819) , by Wetmore (1928) ’ which was not the case.