Sarcoramphus
Sign in to saveSarcoramphus is a genus of New World vulture that contains a single extant species, the king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa).
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Cathartidae
- Collections
- CUMV, ROM, GNM, ANSP
- Recorded in
- United States, Peru, Bolivia
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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 America, and Sarcoramphus fischeri from the Late Pleistocene of Peru.
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