Corvus fangshannus Hou, 1993
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym) (Stidham et al., 2023)
Last record: late Middle Pleistocene or Late Pleistocene (Stidham et al., 2023)
Distribution & Habitat
Beijing, China
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hou, L.-H. (1993). Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian. Mem. Inst. Vert. Palaeont. Palaeoanthr. Academia Sinica 19: 165-297, (in Chinese, English summary (pp. 257-293)).
Other references:
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
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]
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
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)]
Stidham, Thomas A, O’Connor, Jingmai K. and Li, Zhiheng. (2023). The Pleistocene Zhoukoudian ‘Peking Man’ site records the first Beijing (China) evidence of the Northern Raven (Corvus corax). Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02103-6
Stidham, Thomas A., Smith, N. Adam and Li, Zhiheng. (2021). A Pleistocene raven skull (Aves, Corvidae) from Jinyuan Cave, Liaoning Province, China. Quaternary International
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Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.