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Ciconia maltha L. Miller 1910

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6. † Ciconia maltha L. Miller, 1910

La Brea Stork (Cigüeña de La Brea)

Ciconia maltha L. Miller, 1910, Univ. California Publ. Bull. Dept. Geol. 5: 440.

Jabiru mycteria: Wetmore 1928: 2.

Ciconia maltha: Howard 1942: 202.

Ciconia malttla: Newton 2003: 266 (lapsus calami).

Ciconia lydekkeri: Agnolin 2009: 57.

Holotype.—Left tarsometatarsus, UCMP 11202 (Miller 1910: 440, Figs. 1 * [proximal], 2* [distal]). Collected by members of the ‘University of California’ (Miller 1910: 439).

Type locality.—Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA (see Miller 1910, Howard 1942, Wetmore 1956: 22, Brodkorb 1963: 289).

Referred material.— Tibiotarsus: distal left, AMNH unnumbered. Tarsometatarsus: proximal right, AMNH unnumbered (see Howard 1942).

Distribution.—Spring deposit (not ‘from a cave’ as indicated by Howard 1942: 189) in central Cuba (see Appendix). Cienfuegos. Palmira: CCM (Wetmore 1928: 2 [‘ Jabiru mycteria ’], Howard 1942: 201). For summary of continental distribution, see Wetmore (1956: 22, 1959: 8–9), Brodkorb (1963: 289–290), Emslie (1998: 26–27) and Kilmer & Steadman (2016: table 4).

Direct 14 C dating.— None in Cuba. Two indirect conventional dates from its fossil locality in Cienfuegos. Late Pleistocene (CCM):>30,000 to 25,000 ± 2000 14 C yr BP (Kulp et al. 1952: 419, table 2 [two samples: pine cones and wood]).

Notes.—The two referred specimens (Howard 1942: 201–202) are the only known material of this taxon in Cuba. Formerly recorded as Jabiru mycteria (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1819) by Wetmore (1928: 2–3), reidentified as Ciconia maltha by Howard (1942: 202; see also Wetmore 1956: 22, 1959: 9). Navarro (2021: 58, table 4) confused C. maltha with another fossil congeneric taxon in Cuba, the smaller and undescribed Ciconia sp. (see below), which is restricted to tar seeps in Matanzas province (Suárez & Olson 2003a, Suárez 2020a).

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Published as part of Suárez, William, 2022, Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds, pp. 10-74 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 142 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3, http://zenodo.org/record/13760932

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Biodiversity

Collection code
CCM
Scientific name authorship
L. Miller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Ciconiiformes
Family
Ciconiidae
Genus
Ciconia
Species
maltha
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ciconia maltha Miller, 1910 sec. Suárez, 2022

References

  • Miller, L. H. 1910. Wading birds from the Quaternary asphalt beds of Rancho La Brea. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bull. Dept. Geol. 5: 439 - 448.
  • Wetmore, A. 1928. Bones of birds from the Ciego Montero deposit of Cuba. Amer. Mus. Novit. 301: 1 - 5.
  • Howard, H. 1942. A review of the American fossil storks. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 530: 187 - 203.
  • Newton, I. 2003. The speciation & biogeography of birds. Academic Press, London.
  • Agnolin, F. 2009. El registro fosil de Ciconia lydekkeri Ameghino, 1891 [sic] en el Pleistoceno de Sudamerica. Stud. Geol. Salmant. 45 (1): 53 - 58.
  • Wetmore, A. 1956. A check-list of the fossil and prehistoric birds of North America and the West Indies. Smiths. Misc. Coll. 131 (5): 1 - 105.
  • Brodkorb, P. 1963. Catalogue of fossil birds [:] part 1 (Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes). Bull. Fla. State Mus. 7: 179 - 293.
  • Wetmore, A. 1959. Birds of the Pleistocene in North America. Smiths. Misc. Coll. 138 (4): 1 - 24.
  • Emslie, S. D. 1998. Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida peninsula. Orn. Monogr. 50: 1 - 113.
  • Kilmer, J. A. & Steadman, D. W. 2016. A middle Pleistocene bird community from Saint Lucie County, Florida. Bull. Fla. State Mus. 55: 1 - 38.
  • Kulp, J. L., Tryon, L. E., Eckelman, W. R. & Snell, W. A. 1952. Lamont natural radiocarbon measurements, II. Science 116 (3016): 409 - 414.
  • Lichtenstein, H. [= M. H. C.] 1819. Die Werke von Marcgrave und Piso uber die Naturgeschichte Brasiliens, erlautert aus den wieder aufgefundenen Original-Abbildungen. Pp. 155 - 178 in Abh. Konigl. Akad. Wiss. 1816 - 1817. Berlin.
  • Navarro, N. 2021. Annotated checklist of the birds of Cuba. Fourth edn. Ed. Nuevos Mundos.
  • Suarez, W. & Olson, S. L. 2003 a. New records of storks (Ciconiidae) from Quaternary asphalt deposits in Cuba. Condor 105: 150 - 154.
  • Suarez, W. 2020 a. The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba. Zootaxa 4780: 1-53.