Aves - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Full reference: L. H. Miller. 1916. Two vulturid raptors from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(9):105-109
Parent taxon: Aegypiidae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Bickart 1990, Carroll 1988, Feduccia 1974, Lambrecht 1933, Miller 1916, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1943 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Aegypius, Gansugyps, Neogyps, Palaeoborus
Subtaxa: Neophrontops americanus Neophrontops dakotensis Neophrontops slaughteri Neophrontops vallecitoensis Neophrontops vetustus
Type: Neophrontops americanus
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (8: California, Florida, New Mexico, Wyoming collections)
• Blancan of United States (1: Idaho)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of United States (2: Nebraska, Oregon)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
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