Solenodon cubanus Peters, 1861

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 : 18

Solenodon cubanus Peters, 1861

Material. A left proximal ulna fragment from layer E (level II). A complete edentulous right mandible (uncatalogued) and complete left scapula (MNHNCu, field no. 2029) from a surface collection near the deposition cone, under the main sinkhole. The former specimen yielded a direct 14 C age of 650 ± 15 BP (UCIAMS 218808; Orihuela et al., 2020a).

Description. The surface specimens likely belong to the same individual, and appeared fresh (weathering level 0), with slight discoloration. The ulna was slightly mineralized and showed evidence of cracking (weathering level 1) and represents another individual from the sinkhole deposit above. Taxonomic remarks. These specimens are indistinguishable from Solenodon cubanus . The radius was associated with the bat Phyllops vetus that yielded an age of 1960 rcyr BP, thus indicating a pre-Columbian, late Holocene age for that specimen, whereas those from the surface may be several hundred years old, as is supported by the 14 C age estimate of the left scapula (no. 2029).