Coragyps Le Maout, 1853

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 149

Coragyps Le Maout

486. Coragyps atratus (Bechstein)

Quaternary – MG, RN

Catharistes atratus – Winge 1887: 31, fig. 8.

Vulturides [in part] – Goeldi 1894: 76.

Catharistes urubu – Lambrecht 1933: 744.

Coragyps atratus – Brodkorb 1964: 257.

Coragyps atratus [ Catharistes atratus ] – Mones 1986: 82–83. Coragyps atratus – Cuello 1988: 36–37.

Coragyps atratus – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 491.

Winge (1887) reported bones of several individuals, young and adults, from Lapa da Escrivânia V, and those of apparently a single individual from Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro. The material is represented by the quadrate, coracoid, humerus, ulna, carpometacarpus, the first phalanx of the major digit of the wing, femur, tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, and the first phalanx of digit III of the foot. Winge noted that Coragyps atratus and Cathartes aura could be easily distinguished in most bones.

Coragyps atratus – Costa et al. 2023b: 35.

Costa et al. (2023b) reported a fragment of coracoid among material found in two sites (Ravina do Leon and Ravina das Araras) of the Lajedo de Soledade karstic area in Apodi , Rio Grande do Norte.