Pachystruthio

Pachystruthio; Temporal range: Late Pliocene–Middle Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Palaeognathae
Order:	Struthioniformes
Family:	Struthionidae
Genus:	†Pachystruthio; (Kretzoi, 1954)
Type species
	Pachystruthio pannonicus; (Kretzoi, 1954)
Species
	P. dmanisensis (Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua, 1990); P. pannonicus (Kretzoi, 1954); P. transcaucasicus (Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua, 1971);
Synonyms
	Struthio (Pachystruthio) Kretzoi 1954a;

Pachystruthio is a genus of extinct bird which lived in Eurasia from the Late Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene.^[1] Its fossils have been found in Hungary, the Crimea, Romania, Georgia, and China.^[2] The genus contains three species: P. pannonicus (the type species), P. dmanisensis, and P. transcaucasicus, which were all formerly placed with the ostrich genus, Struthio. An incomplete femur from the (China) has been assigned to Pachystruthio indet. P. dmanisensis has been estimated standing 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) tall and weighing up to 450 kg (990 lb), making it much larger than the modern ostrich and one of the largest known birds.^[1]

Although Pachystruthio is known as the giant ostrich, its relationship to the extant ostriches of the genus Struthio is not clear.^[1]^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Zelenkov, N. V.; Lavrov, A. V.; Startsev, D. B.; Vislobokova, I. A.; Lopatin, A. V. (2019). "A giant early Pleistocene bird from eastern Europe: unexpected component of terrestrial faunas at the time of early Homo arrival". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (2): e1605521. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1605521. S2CID 198384367.
^ Buffetaut, Eric; Angst, Delphine (2021). "A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches of China". Diversity. 13 (2): 47. doi:10.3390/d13020047.
^ McRae, Mike. "Giant 11-Foot Bird Discovered in Europe Would Have Weighed Almost Half a Tonne". ScienceAlert. Retrieved 2019-06-27.

Burchak-Abramovich, N.; Vekua, A. (1990). "The fossil ostrich Struthio dmanisensis sp. n., from the Lower Pleistocene of Georgia" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 33 (7): 121–132.
Hitchcock, Don (2010). "The Dmanisi Site". Retrieved 16 February 2011.
Zicha, Ondrej (1999). "Struthio orlovi". Biological Library. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

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[Zelenkov2019-1] Zelenkov, N. V.; Lavrov, A. V.; Startsev, D. B.; Vislobokova, I. A.; Lopatin, A. V. (2019). "A giant early Pleistocene bird from eastern Europe: unexpected component of terrestrial faunas at the time of early Homo arrival". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (2): e1605521. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1605521. S2CID 198384367.

[2] Buffetaut, Eric; Angst, Delphine (2021). "A Giant Ostrich from the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Formation of North China, with a Review of the Fossil Ostriches of China". Diversity. 13 (2): 47. doi:10.3390/d13020047.

[3] McRae, Mike. "Giant 11-Foot Bird Discovered in Europe Would Have Weighed Almost Half a Tonne". ScienceAlert. Retrieved 2019-06-27.

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