Gymnogyps californianus amplus Miller, 1911
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gymnogyps amplus Miller, 1911
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution & Habitat
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, L. H. (1911). A series of eagle tarsi from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bull. Depart. Geol. 6: 305-316.
Or,
Miller, L. (1911). Additions to the avifauna of the Pleistocene deposits at Fossil Lake, Oregon. Univ. California Publ. Geol., 6: 79-87.
Other references:
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Fisher, Harvey L. (1944). The skulls of the Cathartid vultures. Condor 46(6): 272-296.
Fisher, Harvey L. (1947). The skeletons of recent and fossil Gymnogyps. Pacific Sci. 1: 227-236.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1947). A preliminary survey of trends in avian evolution from Pleistocene to recent time. Condor 49(1): 10-13.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1962). Bird Remains from a Prehistoric Cave Deposit in Grant County, New Mexico. Condor 64(3): 241-242.
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
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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)]
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