Asian ostrich
Asian ostrich Early | |
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Asian ostrich skeleton | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Struthioniformes |
Family: | Struthionidae |
Genus: | Struthio |
Species: | †S. asiaticus
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Binomial name | |
†Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards, 1871[1]
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The Asian or Asiatic ostrich (Struthio asiaticus), is an extinct species of ostrich that ranged from Morocco, the Middle East, India, China, Mongolia and Siberia. Fossils date from the upper Pliocene to the early Holocene (3.6 MYA[2] - 8,000 cal yr BP[3]). Beads made from shells taken from archaeological sites in India dating to more than 25,000 years were found to have traces of DNA and analysis of sequences examined from them show that the species is definitely in the genus Struthio.[4]
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Asian ostriches were widespread around Asia. They also used to live in Indian Subcontinent and southern Siberia. In China, it is known that Asiatic ostriches became extinct at the end or shortly after the end of the last Ice Age.
See also[]
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
Footnotes[]
- ^ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1899)
- ^ Paleobiology Database (2012)
- ^ "Ostrich Eggshell from the Far Eastern Steppe: Stable Isotopic Exploration of Range, Commodification, and Extirpation - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. ProQuest 2456446032. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ Jain, Sonal; Rai, Niraj; Kumar, Giriraj; Pruthi, Parul Aggarwal; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Bajpai, Sunil; Pruthi, Vikas (2017). "Ancient DNA Reveals Late Pleistocene Existence of Ostriches in Indian Sub-Continent". PLOS ONE. 12 (3): e0164823. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1264823J. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164823. PMC 5342186. PMID 28273082.
References[]
- Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1899). A Handlist of the Genera and Species of Birds. Vol. Vol. I. Red Lion Court Fleet Street, London UK: Taylor and Francis. p. 2. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
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(help) - Routledge, Jennifer (2020). "Ostrich Eggshell from the Far Eastern Steppe: Stable Isotopic Exploration of Range, Commodification, and Extirpation". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020
- IUCN Red List extinct species
- Ostriches
- Extinct flightless birds
- Ratites
- Struthio
- Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
- Neogene birds of Asia
- Pleistocene birds
- Zanclean first appearances
- Holocene extinctions
- Extinct birds of Asia
- Quaternary birds of Asia
- Fossil taxa described in 1871
- Bird stubs