Sarcoramphus
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Putative Sarcoramphus species
During much of the 19th century, the generic name Sarcoramphus was used for vultures now included in the genus Vultur Linnaeus (1758: 86) (see Sharpe 1874: 20–21 and Hellmayr & Conover 1949: 1–2 for citations). In that time, two species were described in the genus Sarcoramphus. First, Sarcoramphus condor was created by Lesson (1830: 25) as a new replacement name for Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758. Then, Sarcoramphus aequatorialis was described by Sharpe (1874: 21) on the basis of reports by Eydoux & Souleyet (1841) and Orton (1871) and on a zoo specimen. This nominal species is synonymous with Vultur gryphus Linnaeus (Hellmayr & Conover 1949: 2). Five fossil species were also described in the genus Sarcoramphus, as follows. Sarcoramphus fossilis Moreno & Mercerat (1891: 27) from the Holocene of Argentina was found to be a stork of indeterminate species, family Ciconiidae (Tonni & Noriega 1998). Sarcoramphus patruus Lönnberg (1903: 1) from the Pleistocene (see Tonni et al. 2009 and MacFadden et al. 2013 for the age of these deposits) of Bolivia belongs in the genus Vultur (Brodkorb 1964: 253). Sarcoramphus clarki Miller (1910: 11) was transferred by Miller & Howard (1938: 171) to the new genus Breagyps, a genus not closely related to Sarcoramphus within the Cathartidae (Fisher 1944, Howard 1974, Emslie 1988). Vultur kernensis Miller (1931: 70) from the late Pliocene (Blancan) of California was transferred to the genus Sarcoramphus by Brodkorb (1964: 253), but was subsequently found to be a vulture of indeterminate species, family Cathartidae, by Emslie (1988: 222). Sarcoramphus ? fisheri Campbell (1979: 71) from the late Pleistocene of Peru was only tentatively included in the genus Sarcoramphus and its taxonomic identity remains doubtful (Emslie 1988: 222). In summary, no genuine fossil representatives of vultures of the genus Sarcoramphus are known.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cathartidae
- Genus
- Sarcoramphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per tria regna naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. 10 th Revised Edition. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae (Stockholm), 824 pp.
- Sharpe, R. B. (1874) Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. Vol. 1. Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum. The Trustees [of the British Museum], London, xii + 479 pp.
- Hellmayr, C. E. & Conover, B. (1949) Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History, including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago and other islands which may be included on account of their faunal affinities. Vol. 1 (4): Cathartidae - Accipitridae - Pandionidae - Falconidae. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 13 (1 / 4), i - vi, 1 - 358.
- Lesson, R. P. (1830) Traite d'ornithologie. Vol. 1. Part 1. F. G. Levrault, Paris, 80 pp.
- Eydoux, J. F. T. & Souleyet, F. A. (1841) Voyage autour du monde execute pendant les annees 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite commandee par M. Vaillant, Capitaine de vaisseau. Zoologie. Vol. 1. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, iv + xxxix + 132 pp.
- Orton, J. (1871) On the condors and humming-birds of the equatorial Andes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 8, 185 - 192.
- Moreno, F. P. & Mercerat, A. (1891) Catalogo de los pajaros fosiles de la Republica Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata. Anales del Museo de La Plata, 1, 7 - 71.
- Tonni, E. P. & Noriega, J. I. (1998) Los condores (Ciconiiformes, Vulturidae) de la region pampeana de la Argentina durante el Cenozoico tardio: distribucion, interacciones y extinciones. Ameghiniana, 35, 141 - 150.
- Lonnberg, E. (1903) On some fossil remains of a condor from Bolivia. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, 6, 1 - 11.
- Tonni, E. P., Soibelzon, E., Cione, A. L., Carini, A. A., Scillato Yane, G. J., Zurita, A. E. & Paredes Rios, F. (2009) Preliminary correlation of the Pleistocene sequences of the Tarija valley (Bolivia) with the Pampean chronological standard. Quaternary International, 210, 57 - 65. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. quaint. 2009.06.015
- MacFadden, B. J., Zeitler, P. K., Anaya, F. & Cottle, J. M. (2013) Middle Pleistocene age of the fossiliferous sedimentary sequence from Tarija, Bolivia. Quaternary Research, 79, 268 - 273. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. yqres. 2012.12.009
- Brodkorb, P. (1964) Catalogue of fossil birds: Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 8, 195 - 335.
- Miller, L. (1910) The condor-like vultures of Rancho La Brea. University of California, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 6, 1 - 19.
- Miller, L. & Howard, H. (1938) The status of the extinct condor-like birds of the Rancho La Brea Pleistocene. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Biological Sciences, 1, 169 - 176.
- Fisher, H. I. (1944) The skulls of cathartid vultures. Condor, 46, 272 - 296. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1364013
- Howard, H. (1974) Postcranial elements of the extinct condor Breagyps clarki (Miller). Natural History Museum Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science, 256, 1 - 24.
- Emslie, S. D. (1988) The fossil history and phylogenetic relationships of condors (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) in the New World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 8, 212 - 228. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 02724634.1988.10011699
- Miller, L. (1931) Bird remains from the Kern River Pliocene of California. Condor, 33, 70 - 72. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1363312
- Campbell, K. Jr. (1979) The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contributions, 118, 1 - 203.