Biology:Gymnogyps

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Short description: Genus of birds

Gymnogyps
Gymnogyps californianus -San Diego Zoo-8a.jpg
California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Cathartidae
Genus: Gymnogyps
Lesson, 1842
Species
  • Gymnogyps californianus
  • Gymnogyps varonai
  • Gymnogyps amplus
  • Gymnogyps howardae
  • Gymnogyps kofordi

Gymnogyps is a genus of New World vultures in the family Cathartidae. There are five known species in the genus, with only one being extant, the California condor.

Fossil species

  • Gymnogyps amplus was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus.[1][2] The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits' Pit 10, which fossils date to "a Holocene radiocarbon age of 9,000 years."[2] The smaller, modern California condor may have evolved from G. amplus.[2]
  • Gymnogyps howardae was described from the Late Pleistocene (Lujanian) asphalt deposits known as the Talara Tar Seeps, near Talara, northwestern Peru. It lived about 126,000-12,000 years ago.[3]
  • Gymnogyps kofordi was described based on a right tarsometatarsus.[4]

References

  1. Nadin, Elisabeth (26 October 2007). "Tracing the Roots of the California Condor". Caltech News (California Institute of Technology). http://www.caltech.edu/news/tracing-roots-california-condor-1341. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Syverson, Valerie J.; Prothero, Donald R. (2010). "Evolutionary Patterns in Late Quaternary California Condors". PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology (PalArch Foundation) 7 (1): 1–18. http://www.donaldprothero.com/files/92367861.pdf. Retrieved 11 October 2015. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 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)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 (1): 29–37. http://people.uncw.edu/emslies/documents/SuarezandEmslie2003.pdf. 
  4. Emslie, Steven D. (June 1988). "The Fossil History and Phylogenetic Relationships of Condors (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) in the New World". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8 (2): 212–228. doi:10.1080/02724634.1988.10011699. Bibcode1988JVPal...8..212E. 
  5. Iturralde Vinent, M.A.; MacPhee, R.D.E.; Díaz Franco, S.; Rojas Consuegra, R.; Suárez, W.; Lomba, A. (2000). "Las Breas de San Felipe, a quaternary fossiliferous asphalt seep near Martí (Matanzas Province, Cuba)". Caribbean Journal of Science 36 (3–4): 300–313. http://www.redciencia.cu/cdorigen/arca/paper/felipe.pdf. Retrieved 2012-11-28. 

Wikidata ☰ Q10763377 entry