Biology:Pleistovultur
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Short description: Extinct genus of birds
| Pleistovultur Temporal range: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Cathartidae |
| Genus: | †Pleistovultur Alvarenga et al., 2008 |
| Species: | †P. nevesi
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| †Pleistovultur nevesi Alvarenga et al., 2008
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Pleistovultur is an extinct genus of large New World vulture from the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene of South America. The type species P. nevesi was described based in a complete and well preserved right tibiotarsus from the Cuvieri cave deposits in Lagoa Santa region in Minas Gerais state, Brazil . It was larger than Sarcoramphus papa, but smaller than Vultur gryphus.[1]
References
- ↑ Alvarenga, H.; Brito, G. R. R.; Migotto, R.; Hubbe, A.; Höfling, E. (2008) Pleistovultur nevesi gen. et sp. nov. (Aves: Vulturidae) and the diversity of condors and vultures in the South American Pleistocene. Ameghiniana 45 (3): 613-618.
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