Patagorhacos
Extinct genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patagorhacos is an extinct genus of medium-sized phorusrhacid from the early Miocene of Patagonia. Currently only the single species Patagorhacos terrificus is known, which is represented by two highly fragmentary specimen, one belonging to the back of the skull and the other being the distal end of a leg bone. It was described together with the contemporary rheid Opisthodactylus horacioperezi.
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Patagorhacos | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes |
Family: | †Phorusrhacidae |
Genus: | †Patagorhacos Agnolin & Chafrat, 2015[1] |
Species: | †P. terrificus |
Binomial name | |
†Patagorhacos terrificus Agnolin & Chafrat, 2015 [1] | |
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