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Fossil records for the genus Gymnogyps date well into the late Pleistocene. As with most avian species, the fossil records for the condor are probably far from complete but they indicate that the species ranged as far south as Nuevo Leon, Mexico, along the west coast of North America into the Pacific Northwest to Canada, across the southern United States to Florida and up the east coast as far as New York (Brodkorb, 1964; Emslie, 1987). Much of the California condors’ (Gymnogyps californianus) range reduction took place along with the Pleistocene extinctions of North American mega-fauna (Emslie, 1987).
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Toone, W.D., Wallace, M.P. (1994). The extinction in the wild and reintroduction of the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus). In: Olney, P.J.S., Mace, G.M., Feistner, A.T.C. (eds) Creative Conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0721-1_23
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