Gymnogyps amplus

Gymnogyps amplus is an extinct species of large New [World vulture] in the family Cathartidae. The species was first described by Loye H. Miller in 1911 from a partial tarsometatarsus recovered from Pleistocene cave deposits in Samwel Cave of northern California. Harvey I. Fisher designated a set of plesiotypes from the Rancho La Brea which includes a cranium, rostrum, and mandible.
The species is the only condor species found in the La [Brea Tar Pits]' Pit 10, which fossils date to "a Holocene radiocarbon age of 9,000 years." The smaller, modern California condor may have evolved from G. amplus.