Kuntur cardenasi Stucchi et al. 2015 (New World vulture)

Aves - Cathartiformes - Cathartidae

Full reference: M. Stucchi, S. D. Emslie, R. M. Varas-Malca and M. Urbina-Schmitt. 2015. A new late Miocene condor (Aves, Cathartidae) from Peru and the origin of South American condors. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e972507

Belongs to Kuntur according to M. Stucchi et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MUSM 2423, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Laguna Seca, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in Peru.

Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution: found only at Laguna Seca

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