Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall
2024年11月4日 · Millions of years ago, apex predators in the Phorusrhacidae family lived up to their more common name—terror birds. The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs...
Phorusrhacidae - Wikipedia
Phorusrhacids, also known as terror birds, were large carnivorous birds that lived in South America from the Eocene to the Pleistocene. They ranged in height from 1 to 3 m (3 to 10 ft) and had a flexible neck and a hooked beak.
The evolution and ecology of gigantism in terror birds (Aves ...
2024年4月24日 · Terror birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) were large flightless apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic. Here, we estimate a new phylogeny for phorusrhacids using Bayesian inference. We demonstrate phylogenetic evidence for a monophyletic Patagornithinae and find significant support for a distinct crown group associated with the ...
The evolution and ecology of gigantism in terror birds (Aves ...
2024年4月24日 · Following the Santacrucian SALMA, phorusrhacines increased in size, further converging on the morphology of Physornithinae. These findings suggest that the evolution and displacement of body...
The Last Terror Birds: A review of Phorusrhacids and their Plio ...
2021年9月19日 · The size of Phorusrhacids varied heavily as might be expected of such a diverse group. 2 estimates a mass of the smallest species, Psilopterus bachmani at 5kg with a height of about 80cm and the largest estimate for a species at 180kg for Paraphysornis brasiliensis (2) (not including the Brontornithines), though Kelenken guillermoi likely ...
Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes)
In the present work, the Ameghinornithinae Mourer-Chauviré, 1981, from Europe, of a size comparable to the smallest Phorusrhacidae, and known only through the coracoid, humerus and carpometacarpus, are excluded from the family Phorusrhacidae.
A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from …
2024年11月3日 · Phorusrhacidae, popularly known as ‘terror birds’, are a group of highly diversified cursorial birds that played the role of apex predators during most of the Cenozoic. Here we present the first record of a phorusrhacid from the La Venta locality.
Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Aves: Ralliformes)
2003年1月1日 · Comparative diagram of the length of the bones of the appendicular skeleton of Ameghinornis minor, Aenigmavis sapea and Cariama cristata, in a comparison with some Phorusrhacidae. Numbers...
“Terror Birds” (Phorusrhacidae) from the Eocene of Europe Imply …
The only elements among the French and Swiss material that can be compared directly are the ungual phalanges and they are virtually identical. Other elements are compatible in size, indicating a bird roughly the size of the phorusrhacid Patagornis marshi, from the Miocene of Patagonia (height about
Flexibility along the Neck of the Neogene Terror Bird - PLOS
2012年5月25日 · We will dwell on the comparison between several extant birds of different size and habits in order to establish a correlation between cervical morphology and mode of life. Such anatomical analysis is not available for any phorusrhacid, while it is a first requirement for any quantitative analysis in comparative, functional or ecological morphology.
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