Artibeus anthonyi Woloszyn and Silva Taboada, 1977

Orihuela, Johanset, Orozco, Leonel Pérez, Álvarez Licourt, Jorge L., Viera Muñoz, Ricardo A. & Barani, Candido Santana, 2020, Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 57) 23 (3), pp. 1-46 : 22

Artibeus anthonyi Woloszyn and Silva Taboada, 1977

Figure 10.1

Material. Eight specimens (MNHNCu, uncatalogued), representing at least three individuals in the assemblage belong to this species. These were a rostrum, three hemimandibles (no. 11, 12, and 1663), and four humeri encountered within layer H (lower level III) and layer I (level IV) ( Figure 10.1 ) .

Description. These specimens were mineralized, with a few including calcareous encrustations. One of them, a slightly mineralized and robust right hemimandible (no. 1663) found at the bottom of layer H (lowermost level III) yielded a direct radiocarbon date of 1290 ± 30 rcyr BP ( Figure 10.1 ), providing the first direct LAD for this taxon in Cuba .

Taxonomic remarks. The humeri measured between 36.0 and 37.7 mm, and the mandibles had a total length greater than 18.4 mm and less than 22.0 mm. These specimens were identified from Artibeus jamaicensis , and the Cuban subspecies parvipes, based on size and criteria published by Anthony (1919), Woloszyn, and Silva Taboada (1977, 1979), Balseiro et al. (2009), and Orihuela (2010). Artibeus anthonyi has been reported from another deposit in Cueva de los Nesofontes (Orihuela, 2010; Orihuela et al., 2020a, 2020b). The species seems to have been widespread in the archipelago. So far, A. anthonyi has been documented from 11 localities (Borroto-Páez and Mancina, 2017). Including this record and another from a paleontological layer at Cueva del Gato Jíbaro adds to 13 localities. This last specimen yielded a middle Holocene 14 C direct date estimate (Orihuela et al., 2020a, 2020b).

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FIGURE 10. Bats. 1, left hemimandible of Artibeus anthonyi (no, 1663, lower Level III). 2, ventral view of Phyllops vetus incomplete skull (no. 37, Level II). Both specimens were radiocarbon-dated (14C). 3, four hemimandibles of Antrozous koopmani (no. 20, 75, 1429, 1430 from Levels II and IV, also 14C dated). These specimens were also dated, helping corroborate the chronology discussed. The scale bar equals 10 mm.