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Cathartes (vulture)
Taxonomy
Cathartes was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant. Its type is Vultur aura. It is the type genus of Cathartinae.
It was assigned to Vulturidae by Hay (1930); to Cathartinae by Amadon (1977); and to Cathartidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Vulturidae by Hay (1930); to Cathartinae by Amadon (1977); and to Cathartidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Cathartes Illiger |
| 1891 | Cathartes Moreno and Mercerat p. 67 |
| 1930 | Cathartes Hay p. 311 |
| 1935 | Cathartes Schultz and Howard p. 275 |
| 1940 | Cathartes Wetmore p. 29 |
| 1956 | Cathartes Wetmore p. 35 |
| 1977 | Cathartes Amadon p. 413 |
| 2014 | Cathartes del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Cathartes Clements et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Cathartes Illiger 1811 [vulture]
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Cathartes aura Linnaeus 1758 [turkey vulture]
Cathartes burrovianus Cassin 1845 [lesser yellow-headed vulture]
†Cathartes fossilis Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Cathartes melambrotus Wetmore 1964 [greater yellow-headed vulture]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Rancholabrean to the top of the Holocene or 0.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Collections (27 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lujanian | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Cathartes fossilis (71303) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Cathartes aura (20639) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Cathartes aura (20398 20491) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (New Mexico) | Cathartes aura (76060) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ecuador | Cathartes aura (152599) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Cathartes aura (20638 34269 74292) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | Venezuela (Zulia) | Cathartes sp. (63515) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (California) | Cathartes aura (155393) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Cathartes aura (93281) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Cathartes aura (154771) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Cathartes aura (74235 155409 190077 218989) Cathartes sp., Cathartes aura (44954) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | Cathartes aura (71346) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (San Salvador) | Cathartes aura (190743) | |
| Holocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | Cathartes aura (195047) | |
| Holocene | USA (California) | Cathartes aura (194908 194909 194927 194928) | |
| Holocene | USA (Florida) | Cathartes aura (195050) | |
| Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Cathartes aura (104675) |