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22 relations: Aepyornis, Alcoota, Australia, Bullockornis, Djab wurrung, Dromornithidae, Emu, Fowl, Genus, Gondwana, Late Miocene, List of fossil bird genera, Miocene, Moa, Pliocene, Queensland, Richard Owen, Sexual dimorphism, Shire of Peak Downs, Type species, Western Victoria, Zanclean.
Aepyornis
Aepyornis is a genus of aepyornithid, one of two genera of ratite birds endemic to Madagascar known as elephant birds.
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Alcoota
The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important paleontological site located on Alcoota Station in Central Australia, 200 km north-east of Alice Springs.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Bullockornis
Bullockornis planei, nicknamed the Demon-Duck of Doom or Thunderduck, is an extinct flightless bird that lived in the Middle Miocene, approximately 15 million years ago, in what is now Australia.
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Djab wurrung
The Djab wurrung, also Tjapwurrung, people are Indigenous Australians who occupy the volcanic plains of central Victoria from the Mount William Range of Gariwerd in the west to the Pyrenees range in the east encompassing the Wimmera River flowing north and the headwaters of the Hopkins River flowing south.
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Dromornithidae
Dromornithidae (the dromornithids), also commonly referred to as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs.
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Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.
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Fowl
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gondwana
Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).
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Late Miocene
The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages.
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List of fossil bird genera
Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and dinosaurs, except of course that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Moa
The moa were nine species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Shire of Peak Downs
The Shire of Peak Downs was a local government area in the Central Highlands of Queensland, Australia, 320 km west of both Rockhampton and Mackay.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).
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Western Victoria
Western Victoria is a wine grape growing zone in the southwestern part of the state of Victoria in Australia.
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Zanclean
The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene.
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Dromornis australis, Dromornis stirtoni, Stirton's Thunder Bird, Stirtons Thunder Bird.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromornis
