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Neogyps

genus of birds

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6992943 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neogyps is an extinct monotypic genus of Old World vulture, represented by the sole species N. errans, occasionally referred to as the errant eagle. Despite its taxonomic placement among Old World vultures, Neogyps was native to the New World, with fossil remains known from western North America, including the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California. These remains date primarily to the Late Pleistocene. Several morphological characteristics suggest that Neogyps was closely related to the subfamily Gypaetinae.

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“Neogyps” enters the record as genus of birds. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Neogyps, genus and birds can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 77-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 Neogyps, genus and birds.
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“Neogyps” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Neogyps, genus and birds provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6992943. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neogyps” 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.