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Breagyps

species of bird (fossil)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4959224 ↗
Source-derived summary

Breagyps is an extinct genus of New World vulture in the family Cathartidae. The genus takes its name from the La Brea Tar Pits in California, where its remains have been recovered. Breagyps clarki is one of three vulture species represented by fossil material from the tar pits, including the extant Turkey vulture.

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“Breagyps” enters the record as species of bird (fossil). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Breagyps, species and bird can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Breagyps, species and bird.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4959224. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Breagyps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.