Wingegyps cartellei Alvarenga & Olson, 2004:3
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene or early Holocene
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Alvarenga, Herculano M. F. and Olson, Storrs L. (2004). A new genus of tiny condor from the Pleistocene of Brazil (Aves: Vulturidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117(1): 1-9.
Other references:
Nascimento, Rafael and Silveira, Luís Fábio. (2020). The Fossil Birds of Peter Lund. Zootaxa 4743(4): 480-510. [Abstract]
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)]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.
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