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PATAGORNIS
(pat-ah-gor-niss)
meaning: "Patagonian bird"
Named By: Moreno and MerceratFrancisco P. Moreno & Alcides Mercerat in 1891
Time Period: Middle Miocene
Location: Argentina, Santa Cruz Province
Size: Up to 1.7 meters high
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Fossils to identify one species
Classification: | Chordata | Aves | Cariamae | Phorusrhacidae | Patagornithinae |
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Patagornis is a genus of extinct, giant, flightless, predatory birds of the family Phorusrhacidae. Known as "terror birds", these lived in what is now Argentina during the early and middle Miocene; the Santa Cruz Formation in Patagonia contains numerous specimens.

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