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New Records of Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene El Abrón Locality (Cuba)

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A study of new materials on bats from layer VII of the Late Pleistocene karst El Abrón locality (Pinar del Río Province, Cuba) has identified remains of Macrotus waterhousii Gray, Artibeus anthonyi (Wołoszyn et Silva Taboada), Brachyphylla nana Miller, Phyllonycteris poeyi Gundlach, Monophyllus redmani Leach (Phyllostomidae), Antrozous koopmani Orr et Silva Taboada (Vespertilionidae), Pteronotus parnellii (Gray) (Mormoopidae), and Rhizomops brasiliensis (Geoffroy) (Molossidae). The presence of the historically extinct species Artibeus anthonyi and Antrozous koopmani, endemic to Cuba, is typical for the Late Pleistocene taphocenoses of the island.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to all Cuban researchers involved in the work of the expedition: E. Pérez Lorenzo, J.M. Pajon Morejon (National Museum of Natural History of Cuba), R. Rojas-Consuegra (Center for Petroleum Research of Cuba) and their colleagues; we express special gratitude to N.V. Zelenkov (PIN) for the participation in the collection of materials and organizational assistance. We are also grateful to S.V. Bagirov (PIN) for assistance in photographing of the part of the material.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Ministry of Science, Technology, and the Environment of the Republic of Cuba (CITMA) as part of RFBR and CITMA project no. 18-54-34004 (“Late Quaternary Vertebrates of Cuba: Relictual Faunas on the Eve of the Holocene Extinction”). Fossil materials were collected during the Joint Russian–Cuban Paleontological Expedition, which was formed on the basis of an agreement between the Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba (NHNM).

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    V. V. Rosina, A. V. Lopatin & A. K. Agadjanian

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Rosina, V.V., Lopatin, A.V., Agadjanian, A.K. et al. New Records of Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene El Abrón Locality (Cuba). Paleontol. J. 57, 83–91 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030123010124

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