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Teratornis woodburnensis Campbell & Stenger, 2002:3

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Oregon, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Campbell, K. E., Jnr. and Stenger, A. T. (2002). A New Teratorn (Aves: Teratornithidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Oregon, USA. In: Zhou, Z. & Zhang, F. (eds): Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, pp. 1-11.

 

Other references:

Cenizo, Marcos et al. (2021). First Pleistocene South American Teratornithidae (Aves): new insights into the late evolutionary history of teratorns. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(2): e1927064. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1927064

Miranda, Melissa. (2023). Estimating historic ranges of extinct scavenging birds in North America during the Late Pleistocene: using co-occurrence data from the fossil record. MSc essay, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

Suárez, William and Emslie, Steven D. (2023). On the correct publication date for the extinct avian family Teratornithidae L. Miller. Zootaxa 5227(1): 143-146. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.8

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.

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