''Sarcoramphus'' is a genus of
New World vulture that contains a single extant species, the
king vulture ''(Sarcoramphus papa)''.
Extinct members of the genus include the Kern vulture (''
Sarcoramphus kernense
The king vulture (''Sarcoramphus papa'') is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern ...
'') from the mid-
Pliocene of
North America
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,
and ''
Sarcoramphus fisheri'' from the
Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of ...
of
Peru.
A
hypothetical species known as the painted vulture is also assigned to this genus, but no concrete proof of its existence has been found as of yet.
References
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Cathartidae
Bird genera
Bird genera with one living species