Hinasuri

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Hinasuri
Temporal range: Montehermosan
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Rheiformes
Family: Rheidae
Genus: Hinasuri
1995
Type species
Hinasuri nehuensis
1995
Species
  • H. nehuensis 1995

Hinasuri is an extinct genus of rhea from the Montehermosan. Its fossils have been found in the of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The type species is H. nehuensis. Hinasuri was a robust rheid bird, living at a time of increasingly extreme temperatures and decreased precipitation in the Pampean region during the Pliocene–Pleistocene.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Picasso & Clelia Mosto, 2016

Bibliography[]

Further reading[]

  • The Origin and Evolution of Birds by Alan Feduccia


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