Cathartornis

Cathartornis Temporal range: Late Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	† Teratornithidae
Genus:	† Cathartornis L. H. Miller, 1910
Species:	†C. gracilis
Binomial name
†Cathartornis gracilis L. H. Miller, 1910

Cathartornis (" Cathartes Bird") is an ancient bird of the Teratornithidae family. The genus contains a single species, Cathartornis gracilis, known from only 2 tarsometatarsi, 1 complete and 1 containing only the distal end, recovered from the Late Pleistocene La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California. ^{[1] [2]} Since then, no other fossils have officially been referred to the taxon, though some fossils assigned to Teratornis could be from Cathartornis ^[3] and unpublished remains have been mentioned. ^[4]

References

1. Miller, L. (1911). The condor-like vultures of Rancho La Brea (Vol. 6, No. 1). The University Press.
2. Campbell, Kenneth, Scott, Eric & Springer, Kathleen (1999). "A new genus for the incredible teratorn". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 89: 169–175 – via ResearchGate.
3. DIAGNOSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL TAXA OF TERATORNITHIDAE (AVES: ACCIPITRIFORMES), INCLUDING TERATORNIS MILLER 1909 AND ITS SPECIES T. MERRIAMI AND T. WOODBURNENSIS
4. Campbell, K. E., & Stenger, A. T. (2002). A new teratorn (Aves; Teratornithidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Oregon.