Phasmagyps patritus Wetmore 1927 (vulture)

Aves - Cathartiformes - Cathartidae

Belongs to Phasmagyps according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Galbreath 1953, Lambrecht 1933, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Denver Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 804. Its type locality is Trigonias Quarry, which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine volcaniclastic in the Chadron Formation of Colorado.

Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution: found only at Trigonias Quarry

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