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Genus of birds
Gymnogyps is a genus of
New World vultures in the family
Cathartidae . There are five known species in the genus, with only one being extant, the
California condor .
Fossil species
Gymnogyps kofordi was described based on a right tarsometatarsus.
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References
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4523192 .
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