Coragyps

Coragyps
	Black vulture (Coragyps atratus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Cathartidae
Genus:	Coragyps; Le Maout, 1853
Species
	Coragyps atratus; †Coragyps occidentalis; †Coragyps seductus;

Coragyps is a genus of New World vulture that contains the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and two extinct relatives.

One extinct species is the 'western' black vulture, Coragyps occidentalis, a larger ancestral relative of the modern species which lived in North America during much of the Pleistocene epoch.[1][2] The other is the Cuban black vulture, Coragyps seductus, known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.[3]

References

Fisher, Harvey L (1944). "The skulls of the Cathartid vultures" (PDF). Condor. 46 (6): 272–296. doi:10.2307/1364013. JSTOR 1364013. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
Hertel, Fritz (1995). "Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors" (PDF). Auk. 12 (4): 890–903. doi:10.2307/4089021. hdl:10211.3/138737. JSTOR 4089021. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
Suárez, William (May 22, 2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba". Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055754.

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[1] Fisher, Harvey L (1944). "The skulls of the Cathartid vultures" (PDF). Condor. 46 (6): 272–296. doi:10.2307/1364013. JSTOR 1364013. Retrieved November 3, 2007.

[2] Hertel, Fritz (1995). "Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in Recent and fossil raptors" (PDF). Auk. 12 (4): 890–903. doi:10.2307/4089021. hdl:10211.3/138737. JSTOR 4089021. Retrieved November 3, 2007.

[3] Suárez, William (May 22, 2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba". Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055754.