Paracrax
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Paracrax ("near curassow") is a genus of extinct North American flightless birds, possibly related to modern seriemas and the extinct terror birds. Part of Bathornithidae (though some analysis recover it as closer to the living seriemas instead,[1] or possibly entirely out of Cariamiformes[2]), it is a specialised member of this group, being cursorial carnivores much like their South American cousins, some species attaining massive sizes.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes (?) |
Family: | †Bathornithidae (?) |
Genus: | †Paracrax Pierce Brodkorb 1964 |
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†Paracrax antiqua Brodkorb 1964 | |
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