| Coragyps occidentalis Temporal range: Pleistocene - Early Holocene
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| Skeletal mount in the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cathartiformes |
| Family: | Cathartidae |
| Genus: | Coragyps |
| Species: | †C. occidentalis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Coragyps occidentalis Miller, 1909
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Coragyps occidentalis, the Pleistocene black vulture, is an extinct species of New World vulture that lived throughout North and South America during the Pleistocene. It was formerly thought to be the ancestor to the modern black vulture (C. atratus), but is now thought to have evolved from it; the modern black vulture is paraphyletic with respect to it.[1][2][3]
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