Genus of birds
Gymnogyps |
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California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) |
Scientific classification |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cathartiformes |
Family: | Cathartidae |
Genus: | Gymnogyps Lesson, 1842 |
Species |
- Gymnogyps californianus
- †Gymnogyps varonai
- †Gymnogyps amplus
- †Gymnogyps howardae
- †Gymnogyps kofordi
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Gymnogyps is a genus of New World vultures in the family Cathartidae. There are five known species in the genus, with only one being extant, the California condor.
Fossil species
- Gymnogyps amplus was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus.[1][2] The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits' Pit 10, which fossils date to "a Holocene radiocarbon age of 9,000 years."[2] The smaller, modern California condor may have evolved from G. amplus.[2]
- Gymnogyps howardae was described from the Late Pleistocene (Lujanian) asphalt deposits known as the Talara Tar Seeps, near Talara, northwestern Peru. It lived about 126,000-12,000 years ago.[3]
- Gymnogyps kofordi was described based on a right tarsometatarsus.[4]
References
- ^ Nadin, Elisabeth (26 October 2007). "Tracing the Roots of the California Condor". Caltech News. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ a b c Syverson, Valerie J.; Prothero, Donald R. (2010). "Evolutionary Patterns in Late Quaternary California Condors" (PDF). PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. 7 (1). PalArch Foundation: 1–18. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- ^ a b Suárez, W.; Emslie, S.D. (2003). "New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 29–37.
- ^ Emslie, Steven D. (June 1988). "The Fossil History and Phylogenetic Relationships of Condors (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) in the New World". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 8 (2): 212–228. Bibcode:1988JVPal...8..212E. doi:10.1080/02724634.1988.10011699. JSTOR 4523192.
- ^ Iturralde Vinent, M.A.; MacPhee, R.D.E.; Díaz Franco, S.; Rojas Consuegra, R.; Suárez, W.; Lomba, A. (2000). "Las Breas de San Felipe, a quaternary fossiliferous asphalt seep near Martí (Matanzas Province, Cuba)" (PDF). Caribbean Journal of Science. 36 (3–4): 300–313. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
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