New papers and preprints on antillean vertebrate extinctions now available!

Hi there internet surfers and blog-verse travelers, what a great way to start the new year. There are several new research papers and findings now available on Cuban - generally Antillean  - Late Quaternary land vertebrate extinctions. A lot of exiting and revealing new data, on which I will expand in future blog posts; hopefully, soon.

In the mean time, here I share some links for those interested in our new data and preprints.

Our new paper on Cuba bats is now available on my ResearchGate page here, or on the Novitates Caribaea journal page, here. To see a post on this research, visit here.

Three of our preprints posted on BioRxiv are available there, and they are citable as:

J. Orihuela, Lázaro W. Viñola, Osvaldo Jiménez Vázquez, Alexis Mychajliw, Odlanyer Hernández de Lara, Logel Lorenzo, J. Angel Soto-Centeno "Assessing the role of humans in Greater Antillean land vertebrate extinctions: new insights from Cuba" bioRxiv 2020.01.27.922237;doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.27.922237

J. Orihuela, Leonel Pérez Orozco, Jorge L. Álvarez Licourt, Ricardo A. Viera Muñoz, Candido Santana Barani "Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: stratigraphy, last appearance dates, diversity and paleoecology"
bioRxiv 2020.01.17.909663; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.17.909663

J. Orihuela, Yasmani Ceballos Izquierdo, Roger W. Portell "First report of the Eocene bivalve Schedocardia (Mollusca, Cardiidae) from Cuba" bioRxiv 2020.02.03.932756; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.03.932756

Extinct Cuban ground sloth Megalocnus rodens. Specimen mounted with remains discovered by Carlos de la Torre
This skeleton is part of the collection at the Cuban National Museum.