Euphagus magnirostris A. H. Miller, 1929
Large-billed blackbird
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, A. H. (1929). The Passerine remains from Rancho la Brea in the palaeontological collections of the University of California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 19: 1-22.
Other references:
Oswald, Jessica A. and Steadman, David W. (2015). The changing diversity and distribution of dry forest passerine birds in northwestern Peru since the last ice age. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132(4): 836-862.
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)]
Steadman, David W. et al. (2015). The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics. Quaternary Research 83(3): 555-564.
Stock, Chester and Harris, J. M. (1992). Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series no. 37, 7th ed.: i-xiv + 1-113.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.
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