Table of Contents
69 relations: Adinotherium, American Museum of Natural History, Andalgalornis, Andrewsornis, Argentina, Bird, Borhyaena, Cariamiformes, Carlos Ameghino, Chicago, Chile, Ciconia, Devincenzia, Early Miocene, Estuary, Extinction, Family (biology), Field Museum of Natural History, Florentino Ameghino, Fossilworks, Francisco Moreno, Frugivore, Genus, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis, Illinois, Interatheriidae, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Kelenken, La Plata Museum, Laventan, Llallawavis, Mandibular symphysis, Marsupial, Mesembriornis, Middle Miocene, Miocene, Mudstone, Natural History Museum, London, Nesodon, New Jersey, New York City, Nomen nudum, Notoungulata, Opisthodactylus, Othniel Charles Marsh, Paraphysornis, Patagonia, Pennaceous feather, Phorusrhacidae, ... Expand index (19 more) »
- Fossil taxa described in 1891
- Miocene birds of South America
- Phorusrhacidae
Adinotherium
Adinotherium (meaning "not terrible beast")Palmer (1904) p. 80. Patagornis and Adinotherium are Colloncuran, fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Laventan, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Andalgalornis
Andalgalornis is a genus of flightless predatory birds of the extinct family Phorusrhacidae (often called "terror birds") that lived in Argentina. Patagornis and Andalgalornis are extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America and Neogene Argentina.
See Patagornis and Andalgalornis
Andrewsornis
Andrewsornis is an extinct genus of giant flightless predatory birds of the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" that lived in Oligocene Argentina. Patagornis and Andrewsornis are extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Neogene Argentina and Phorusrhacidae.
See Patagornis and Andrewsornis
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Borhyaena
Borhyaena is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, living between 17.5 and 15.5 million years ago in Patagonia, Argentina (Santa Cruz and Sarmiento Formations) and Chile (Río Frias Formation). Patagornis and Borhyaena are fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
Cariamiformes
Cariamiformes (or Cariamae) is an order of primarily flightless birds that has existed for over 50 million years.
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Carlos Ameghino
Carlos Ciriaco Ameghino (16 June 1865 – 12 April 1936) was an Argentine paleontologist and explorer who accompanied his brother Florentino Ameghino throughout Argentina searching for fossils.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Ciconia
Ciconia is a genus of birds in the stork family.
Devincenzia
Devincenzia is an extinct genus of giant flightless predatory birds in the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" that lived during the Early Miocene (Deseadan) Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay, Late Miocene (Huayquerian) Ituzaingó Formation, Early Pliocene (Montehermosan) of Argentina, and possibly the Early Pleistocene Raigón Formation of Uruguay. Patagornis and Devincenzia are extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America and Neogene Argentina.
See Patagornis and Devincenzia
Early Miocene
The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages.
See Patagornis and Early Miocene
Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.
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Florentino Ameghino
Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century.
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Fossilworks
Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.
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Francisco Moreno
Francisco Pascasio Moreno (May 31, 1852 – November 22, 1919) was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno (perito means "specialist, expert").
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Frugivore
A frugivore is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Hesperornis
Hesperornis (meaning "western bird") is a genus of cormorant-like Ornithuran that spanned throughout the Campanian age, and possibly even up to the early Maastrichtian age, of the Late Cretaceous period. Patagornis and Hesperornis are extinct flightless birds.
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Ichthyornis
Ichthyornis (meaning "fish bird", after its fish-like vertebrae) is an extinct genus of toothy seabird-like ornithuran from the late Cretaceous period of North America.
See Patagornis and Ichthyornis
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Interatheriidae
Interatheriidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America.
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.
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Kelenken
Kelenken is a genus of phorusrhacid ("terror bird"), an extinct group of large, predatory birds, which lived in what is now Argentina in the middle Miocene about 15 million years ago. Patagornis and Kelenken are Colloncuran, extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America, Neogene Argentina and Phorusrhacidae.
La Plata Museum
The La Plata Museum (Museo de La Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina.
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Laventan
The Laventan (Laventense) age is a period of geologic time (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) within the Middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America.
Llallawavis
Llallawavis scagliai (magnificent bird of Scaglia) is a large, extinct predatory bird from Pliocene Argentina. Patagornis and Llallawavis are fossils of Argentina, Neogene Argentina and Phorusrhacidae.
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Mandibular symphysis
In human anatomy, the facial skeleton of the skull the external surface of the mandible is marked in the median line by a faint ridge, indicating the mandibular symphysis (Latin: symphysis menti) or line of junction where the two lateral halves of the mandible typically fuse in the first year of life (6–9 months after birth).
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Marsupial
Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.
Mesembriornis
Mesembriornis is a genus of intermediate-sized phorusrhacids that grew up to in height. Patagornis and Mesembriornis are extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America and Phorusrhacidae.
See Patagornis and Mesembriornis
Middle Miocene
The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages.
See Patagornis and Middle Miocene
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Nesodon
Nesodon ("island tooth")Palmer (1904) p. 457. Patagornis and Nesodon are fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nomen nudum
In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.
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Notoungulata
Notoungulata is an extinct order of ungulates that inhabited South America from the early Paleocene to the end of the Pleistocene, living from approximately 61 million to 11,000 years ago.
See Patagornis and Notoungulata
Opisthodactylus
Opisthodactylus is an extinct genus of rhea from the Early to Middle Miocene Santa Cruz and Chichinales Formations and the Late Miocene (Montehermosan) Andalhuala Formation of Argentina. Patagornis and Opisthodactylus are Colloncuran, fossil taxa described in 1891, fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Laventan, Miocene birds of South America, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
See Patagornis and Opisthodactylus
Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Paraphysornis
Paraphysornis is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited Brazil during Late Oligocene or Early Miocene epochs. Patagornis and Paraphysornis are Miocene birds of South America and Phorusrhacidae.
See Patagornis and Paraphysornis
Patagonia
Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.
Pennaceous feather
The pennaceous feather is a type of feather present in most modern birds and in some other species of maniraptoriform dinosaurs.
See Patagornis and Pennaceous feather
Phorusrhacidae
Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era. Patagornis and Phorusrhacidae are extinct flightless birds.
See Patagornis and Phorusrhacidae
Phorusrhacos
Phorusrhacos is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited South America during the Miocene epoch. Patagornis and Phorusrhacos are Colloncuran, extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Laventan, Miocene birds of South America and Santacrucian.
See Patagornis and Phorusrhacos
Physornis
Physornis is an extinct genus of giant flightless predatory birds of the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds", most closely related to Paraphysornis, that lived in Argentina. Patagornis and Physornis are fossils of Argentina and Phorusrhacidae.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Premaxilla
The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Procariama
Procariama is an extinct monotypic genus of phorusrhacid, which lived from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene (11-2 million years ago) of Argentina. Patagornis and Procariama are extinct flightless birds, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America, Neogene Argentina and Phorusrhacidae.
Protypotherium
Protypotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. Patagornis and Protypotherium are Colloncuran, fossils of Argentina, Friasian, Laventan, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
See Patagornis and Protypotherium
Psilopterus
Psilopterus (Greek for "bare wing") is an extinct genus of phorusrhacid ("terror bird") from the Middle Oligocene to possibly the Late Pleistocene of Argentina and Uruguay. Patagornis and Psilopterus are extinct flightless birds, fossil taxa described in 1891, fossils of Argentina, Miocene birds of South America, Phorusrhacidae and Santacrucian.
See Patagornis and Psilopterus
Pyrotherium
Pyrotherium ('fire beast') is an extinct genus of South American ungulate, of the order Pyrotheria, that lived in what is now Argentina and Bolivia, during the Late Oligocene. Patagornis and Pyrotherium are fossils of Argentina.
See Patagornis and Pyrotherium
Santa Cruz Formation
The Santa Cruz Formation is a geological formation in the Magallanes/Austral Basin in southern Patagonia in Argentina and in adjacent areas of Chile. Patagornis and Santa Cruz Formation are Friasian, Neogene Argentina and Santacrucian.
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Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Santa Cruz Province (Provincia de Santa Cruz,, "Holy Cross") is a province of Argentina, located in the southern part of the country, in Patagonia.
See Patagornis and Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Santacrucian
The Santacrucian age is a period of geologic time (17.5 – 16.3 Ma) within the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically with SALMA classification in South America. Patagornis and Santacrucian are Neogene Argentina.
See Patagornis and Santacrucian
Seriema
The seriemas are the sole living members of the small bird family Cariamidae, which is also the only surviving lineage of the order Cariamiformes.
Sparassodonta
Sparassodonta (from Greek σπαράσσειν, to tear, rend; and ὀδούς, gen. ὀδόντος, tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials.
See Patagornis and Sparassodonta
Temperate rainforest
Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain.
See Patagornis and Temperate rainforest
Titanis
Titanis (meaning "Titan" for the mythological Greek Titans) is a genus of phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a group originating in South America), an extinct family of large, predatory birds, in the order Cariamiformes that inhabited the United States during the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene. Patagornis and Titanis are extinct flightless birds.
Toxodontidae
Toxodontidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals, known from the Oligocene to the Holocene (11,000 BP) of South America, with one genus, Mixotoxodon, also known from the Pleistocene of Central America and southern North America (as far north as Texas).
See Patagornis and Toxodontidae
Xenarthra
Xenarthra (from Ancient Greek ξένος, xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον, árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the Americas.
See also
Fossil taxa described in 1891
- Adianthus
- Aegialornis
- Agrosaurus
- Ailuravus
- Analcitherium
- Apateopholis
- Brontornis
- Calamosaurus
- Catonyx
- Ciconia lydekkeri
- Dasypus neogaeus
- Dolichoderus explicans
- Dryornis
- Eucinepeltus
- Eugyrinus
- Homunculus (genus)
- Hypselornis
- Lasiorhinus angustidens
- Necrolestes
- Neochen debilis
- Notohippus
- Opisthodactylus
- Palaeospheniscus
- Palaeospheniscus bergi
- Palaeospheniscus patagonicus
- Paraptenodytes
- Patagornis
- Pelecyodon
- Phoenicopterus copei
- Porolepis
- Prepotherium
- Proeutatus
- Prothylacinus
- Protoceras
- Protoryx
- Psilopterus
- Stenotatus
- Tapinoma minutissimum
- Theriodictis
- Torosaurus
- Tremacyllus
Miocene birds of South America
- Andalgalornis
- Ankonetta
- Aramus paludigrus
- Argentavis
- Arthrodytes
- Brasilogyps
- Brontornis
- Crypturellus reai
- Devincenzia
- Dryornis
- Galbula hylochoreutes
- Giganhinga
- Hoazinavis
- Hoazinoides
- Kelenken
- Leptoptilos patagonicus
- Liptornis
- Macranhinga
- Megapaloelodus
- Mesembriornis
- Opisthodactylus
- Palaeospheniscus
- Palaeospheniscus bergi
- Palaeospheniscus bilocular
- Palaeospheniscus gracilis
- Palaeospheniscus patagonicus
- Palaeospheniscus wimani
- Paraphysornis
- Paraptenodytes
- Paraptenodytes brodkorbi
- Paraptenodytes robustus
- Patagorhacos
- Patagornis
- Phorusrhacos
- Procariama
- Psilopterus
- Spheniscus anglicus
- Spheniscus megaramphus
- Spheniscus muizoni
- Taubacrex
- Yarquen
Phorusrhacidae
- Andrewsornis
- Brontornithinae
- Kelenken
- Llallawavis
- Mesembriornis
- Paleopsilopterus
- Paraphysornis
- Patagorhacos
- Patagornis
- Patagornithinae
- Phorusrhacidae
- Phorusrhacinae
- Physornis
- Procariama
- Psilopterus
References
Also known as Patagornis marshi, Tolmodus.