Gymnogyps amplus
| Gymnogyps amplus Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Holocene
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| Gymnogyps amplus L. H. Miller, 1911
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Gymnogyps amplus is an extinct species of large New World vultures in the family Cathartidae. The species 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]
References
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- ^ 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.
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