Brontornis
Brontornis is an extinct genus of giant bird that inhabited Argentina during the Early to Middle Miocene. Its taxonomic position is highly controversial, with authors alternatively considering it to be a cariamiform, typically a phorusrhacid (terror bird) or an anserimorph.
| Brontornis | |
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| Fossil femur | |
| Fossil tarsometatarsus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Neognathae |
| Genus: | †Brontornis Moreno & Mercerat 1891 |
| Type species | |
| †Brontornis burmeisteri Moreno & Mercerat 1891 | |
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