Psilopterus sp. nov. 'Uruguay'

Uruguayan terror bird

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Uruguay

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Alvarenga, Herculano et al. (2010). The youngest record of phorusrhacid birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 256(2): 229-234.

Jones, Washington et al. (2017). The last terror birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae): new evidence from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay. PalZ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0388-y [Abstract]

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

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