Named By: | Rovereto in 1914 |
Time Period: | Late Miocene - Late Pliocene |
Location: | Argentina, Catamarca Province |
Size: | Up to 1 meter tall |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Enough to identify one species |
Classification: | | Chordata | Aves | Cariamae | Phorusrhacidae | Psilopterinae | |
Procariama is an extinct Monotypic genus of giant flightless predatory birds, reaching 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, in the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" which lived in Argentina.