Psittacara eups ( Wagler, 1832 ) sensu Remsen et al. (2013)

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 : 17

Psittacara eups ( Wagler, 1832) sensu Remsen et al. (2013)

Figure 5.3

Material. A complete right humerus (field number 1339) from layer G (level III) ( Figure 5.3 ).

Description. Well-preserved specimen, measuring in total length (TL) 28.2 mm, GDW 5.8 mm, greatest proximal width (GPW) 9.26 mm, and GSW 2.69 mm.

Taxonomic remarks. This specimen compares in size with Psittacara parakeets such as Psittacara nana from Jamaica (UF 25929): TL 29.8 mm, GDW 6.01 mm, DPW 10.1 mm, and GSW 2.55 mm. Morphologically is most similar to this genus in having a shallow bicipital furrow, scarcely grooved bicipital furrow and deltoid crest, round head, poorly developed external tuberosity proximally. Distally, shallow brachial depression, and etepicondylar prominence. It was qualitatively comparable to the endemic Cuban parakeet P. eups (Garrido and Kirkconnell, 2000) . This specimen was associated with the species and is likely of the same age. This constitutes the first pre-Columbian record for the species.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Bird fossil and subfossil remains from test pit D. 1, Cathartes aura maxilla in lateral and dorsal view. 2, proximal tibiotarsus of Colaptes cf. fernandinae. 3, the humerus of Psittacara eups. 4, distal coracoid of Progne cf. cryptoleuca or subis. 5, humerus of Tachycineta bicolor (FLMNH-UF 17685); 6, humerus of Tachycineta cf. bicolor. 7, humerus of Geotrygon cf. chrysia. 8, humerus of Sphyrapicus varius. 9, humerus of Melanerpes superciliaris. 10, tarsometatarsus (left) and humerus of Margarobyas lawrencii. 11, humerus of Saurothera merlini. The numbers on specimens are field numbers. Each scale bar represents 10 mm.