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TITANIS
(tie-tan-is)
meaning: "Titanic"
Titanis
Named By: Pierce Brodkorb in 1963
Time Period: Blancan-Gelasian,[1] 4.9-1.8 Ma
Location: USA, Florida, Texas
Size: Estimated at 2.5 meters tall
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Multiple but fragmentary post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Aves | Cariamae | Phorusrhacidae | Phorusrhacinae |
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Titanis walleri is a large extinct flightless carnivorous bird of the family Phorusrhacidae, endemic to North America during the Blancan stage of the Pliocene living 4.9--1.8 Ma, and died out during the Gelasian Age of the earliest Pleistocene, existing approximately 3.1 million years. It was 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) tall and weighed approximately 150 kilograms (330 lb).

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