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Genus GYMNOGYPS Lesson 



Gymnogyps Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, ser. 2, vol. 6, Dec. 8, 1842, col. 

 1037. Type, by monotypy, Vitltur californianus Shaw. 



Gymnogyps amplus Miller ^^ 



Gymnogyps amplus L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., 

 vol. 6, No. 16, Oct. 28, 1911, p. 390, fig. 2. 



Pleistocene : Sarasota and Seminole Field, Pinellas County, Florida ; 

 San Josecito Cave, Aramberri, Niievo Leon. Late Pleistocene : Sam- 

 wel Cave (type locality) and Stone Man Cave, Shasta County; Car- 

 pinteria, McKittrick, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California, 

 Quaternary (probably Recent) : Rocky Arroyo, New Mexico. 



Genus BREAGYPS Miller and Howard 



Breagyps L. H. Miller and H. Howard, Publ. Univ. California at Los 

 Angeles, Biol. Sci., vol. 9, Feb. 18, 1938, p. 171. Type, by original designa- 

 tion, Vultur clarki Miller = Sarcorhamphus clarki Miller, 



Breagyps clarki (Miller) 



Sarcorhamphus clarki L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept, 

 Geol., vol. 6, No. i, Nov. 28, 1910, p. 11, figs. 3a, ^b. 



Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 

 Quaternary (probably late Pleistocene) : Smith Creek Cave, 34 miles 

 north of Baker, White Pine County, Nevada. 



Genus SARCORAMPHUS Dum^ril 



Sarcoramphtis Dumeril, Z06I. Anal., 1806, p. 32. Type, by subsequent designa- 

 tion, Vultur papa Linnaeus (Vigors, 1825). 



Sarcoramphus kernense (Miller) 



Vultur kernensis L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 22, Mar. 18, 1931, p. 70, fig. 16, 



Pliocene: Pozo Creek, Kern River Divide, Kern County, about 9 

 miles northeast of Bakersfield, California. 



Family TERATORNITHIDAE : Teratornithes 



Genus TERATORNIS Miller 



Teratornis, L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 5, 

 No. 21, Sept. 10, 1909, p. 307. Type, by monotypy, Teratornis merriami 

 Miller. 



*8 Fisher, Pacific Science, vol. i. No. 4, October 1947, p. 227, finds that all 

 fossil material from western North America formerly placed under the living 

 Gymnogyps californianus is properly assigned to the present bird, which is so 

 slightly differentiated as to be considered the direct Pleistocene progenitor of 

 the modern form. The remaining records, from Florida and Nuevo Leon, are 

 placed under amplus on the basis of probability. 



