Gymnogyps amplus
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| Gymnogyps amplus Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Holocene
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G. amplus
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| Gymnogyps amplus L. H. Miller, 1911
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Gymnogyps amplus is an extinct species of large New World vultures in the family Cathartidae. The species 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]
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