Rhea pampeana Moreno & Mercerat, 1891
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Argentina
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Moreno, F. P. and Mercerat, A. (1891). Catalogue des Oiseaux Fossiles de la Republique Argentine conserves au Musee de la Plata. Anales del Museo de la Plata 1: 1-71.
Other references:
Picasso, Mariana B. J. (2015). Diversity of extinct Rheidae (Aves, Palaeognathae): historical controversies and the new taxonomic status of Rhea pampeana Moreno and Mercerat 1891 from the Pleistocene of Argentina. Historical Biology. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2015.1111883 [Abstract]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.