Kuntur
Extinct genus of cathartid bird
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Kuntur is an extinct monotypic genus of cathartid bird that lived in South America during the Tortonian stage of the Miocene epoch.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Cathartidae |
| Genus: | †Kuntur |
| Species: | †K. cardenasi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kuntur cardenasi Stucchi et al., 2015[1] | |
Kuntur, the generic name, derives from the Quechua word for condor. The specific epithet of Kuntur cardenasi, the type species of the genus, refers to Santiago de Cárdenas, the first Peruvian naturalist to study condors.[3]