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Cathartes aura (turkey vulture)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Cathartidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Vultur aura Linnaeus p. 86
1930Cathartes aura Hay p. 311
1931Cathartes aura Wetmore p. 23
1935Cathartes aura Schultz and Howard p. 275
1940Cathartes aura Wetmore p. 29
1942Cathartes aura Miller and DeMay p. 91
1956Cathartes aura Wetmore p. 35
1959Cathartes aura Hamon p. 533
1976Cathartes aura Campbell p. 158
1977Cathartes aura Amadon p. 414
1990Cathartes aura Olson et al. p. 8
2003Cathartes aura Steadman et al.
2004Cathartes aura Broughton p. 17
2014Cathartes aura del Hoyo et al.
2017Cathartes aura Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
orderTheropoda
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
orderCathartiformesCoues 1884
familyCathartidaeLafresnaye 1839
genusCathartesIlliger 1811
speciesaura()

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.

Cathartes aura Linnaeus 1758 [turkey vulture]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialf
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volantf
Diet: carnivoref
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 16:31:16
Modified: 2009-01-03 18:31:16
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Naka 2004

Age range: base of the Rancholabrean to the top of the Holocene or 0.30000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (28 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Cathartes aura (20639)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Cathartes aura (152008 161536 192630)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (Florida) Cathartes aura (20398 20491)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Cathartes aura (155393)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Cathartes aura (44954 74235 155409 190077 218989)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Cathartes aura (76060)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ecuador Cathartes aura (152599)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Cathartes aura (154771)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Cathartes aura (93281)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Peru Cathartes aura (71346)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Cathartes aura (20638 34269 74292)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Bahamas (San Salvador) Cathartes aura (190743)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Cathartes aura (194908 194909 194927 194928)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Florida) Cathartes aura (195050)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Virginia) Cathartes aura (104675)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Mexico (Chiapas) Cathartes aura (195047)