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Diogenornis

Extinct ratite from the Paleocene–Eocene of Brazil.

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Diogenornis is an extinct genus of ratites known from the Middle Paleocene to Early Eocene of southeastern Brazil. Described in 1983 by Herculano Marcos Ferraz de Alvarenga, its type species is D. fragilis. It reached about 90 cm in height, roughly two thirds the size of the modern greater rhea.

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. InfraclassPalaeognathae
  5. OrderCasuariiformes
  6. Genus†Diogenornis

Named by Alvarenga 1983

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Diogenornis (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Type species
Diogenornis fragilis

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