''Sarcoramphus'' is a genus of

New World vulture The New World vulture or condor family, Cathartidae, contains seven extant species in five genera. It includes five extant vultures and two extant condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas. The "New World" vultures were widespr ...

that contains a single extant species, the

king vulture 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 Mexic ...

''(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 Mex ...

'') from the mid-

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, and ''

Sarcoramphus fisheri ''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'') from the mid-Pliocene of North Ame ...

'' from the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch withi ...

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. 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.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15734727 Cathartidae Bird genera Bird genera with one living species