Eleutherornis
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Eleutherornis cotei is a medium-sized (estimated to be 1.5 meters tall) extinct flightless predatory bird, in the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" whose remains have been found in Middle Eocene aged strata from France and Switzerland.[1]
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Eleutherornis | |
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E. cotei material from Switzerland | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes |
Family: | †Phorusrhacidae |
Genus: | †Eleutherornis Schaub, 1940 |
Species: | †E. cotei |
Binomial name | |
†Eleutherornis cotei (Gaillard, 1936) | |
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