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Heterorhea

Heterorhea
Temporal range: Pliocene (Chapadmalalan)
~4–3 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Rheiformes
Family: Rheidae
Genus: †Heterorhea
Rovereto 1914
Type species
Heterorhea dabbenei
Rovereto 1914
Species
  • H. dabbenei Rovereto 1914

Heterorhea is an extinct genus of ratites in the rhea family. The type species is H. dabbenei.[1] from the Late Pliocene Monte Hermoso Formation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.[2] The holotype of the genus is missing.[3]

References

  1. ^ Heterorhea at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Brodkorb, P. (1963) Catalogue of fossil birds Part 1 (Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes). Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 7: 179-293.
  3. ^ Tambussi & Degrange, 2012, p.77

Bibliography

  • Tambussi, Claudia P.; Degrange, Federico (2012), South American and Antarctic Continental Cenozoic Birds: Paleobiogeographic Affinities and Disparities, Springer Science & Business Media, pp. 1–113, ISBN 978-94-007-5467-6, retrieved 2017-10-01


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