Gymnogyps howardae

Gymnogyps howardae
Temporal range: 0.126–0.012 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Accipitriformes
Family:Cathartidae
Genus:Gymnogyps
Species: G. howardae
Binomial name
Gymnogyps howardae
Campbell, 1979

Gymnogyps howardae is an extinct large species of New World vultures in the family Cathartidae. Gymnogyps howardae is known only from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits known as the Talara Tar Seeps, near to Talara, northwestern Peru. It lived about 126-12 thousand years ago.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Suárez, W.; Emslie, S.D. (2003). "New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 29–37.
  • Kenneth Eugene Campbell, Jr. (1979). The Non-passerine Pleistocene Avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, Northwestern Peru. Life Sciences Contributions. 118. Royal Ontario Museum. pp. 1–203. ISBN 978-0-88854-230-4.
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