Andalgalornis
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Andalgalornis is a genus of flightless predatory birds of the extinct family Phorusrhacidae (often called "terror birds") that lived in Argentina. The type and only species is A. steulleti.
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Andalgalornis | |
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CT scan of the skull of P 14357, holotype of A. ferox in the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes |
Family: | †Phorusrhacidae |
Subfamily: | †Patagornithinae |
Genus: | †Andalgalornis Patterson & Kraglievich, 1960 |
Species: | †A. steulleti |
Binomial name | |
†Andalgalornis steulleti (Kraglievich, 1931) | |
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