Pyelorhamphus molothroides Miller, 1932
Thick-billed cowbird
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene (Harris, 1993)
Distribution
New Mexico, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, Alden H. (1932). An extinct icterid from Shelter Cave, New Mexico. The Auk 49(1): 38-41.
Other references:
Harris, Arthur H. (1993). Quaternary vertebrates of New Mexico, pp. 179-197. In: Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 2:i-vii, 1-338.
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.