East Asian ostrich Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Struthioniformes |
Family: | Struthionidae |
Genus: | Struthio |
Species: | S. anderssoni
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Binomial name | |
Struthio anderssoni
Percy Lowe, 1931
[1]
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Struthio anderssoni, also known as the East Asian ostrich, [2] is an extinct species of ostrich that lived in the Pleistocene and Holocene in China and Mongolia. In 2023, based on a re-examination of cast of a femur, it was suggested that this species be moved the genus Pachystruthio. [3]
Struthio anderssoni was a large ostrich with an estimated mass of 270kg, laying eggs of up to 2400 cm3 in volume. [4]
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East Asian ostrich Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Struthioniformes |
Family: | Struthionidae |
Genus: | Struthio |
Species: | S. anderssoni
|
Binomial name | |
Struthio anderssoni
Percy Lowe, 1931
[1]
|
Struthio anderssoni, also known as the East Asian ostrich, [2] is an extinct species of ostrich that lived in the Pleistocene and Holocene in China and Mongolia. In 2023, based on a re-examination of cast of a femur, it was suggested that this species be moved the genus Pachystruthio. [3]
Struthio anderssoni was a large ostrich with an estimated mass of 270kg, laying eggs of up to 2400 cm3 in volume. [4]
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cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)