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Struthioniformes (the ratites), but are now
usually classified as galloanseres.
Dromornithids were part of the
Australian megafauna. One species,
Dromornis stirtoni...
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Richard Owen in 1843. A
femur that was
forwarded to England,
probably a
dromornithid and
since lost,
suggested an
Australian genus, but Owen
withheld publication...
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species alerted Stirling to its
existence in 1893. The
placement of this
dromornithid species may be
summarised as:
Dromornithidae (8
species in 4 genera)...
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Ilbandornis was a
genus of ostrich-sized
dromornithid, a
clade known casually as "demon ducks"
because they are most
closely related to the
water fowl...
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Barawertornis tedfordi was a
dromornithid (mihirung), a
large flightless fowl
hailing from Late
Oligocene to
Early Miocene. The only
species in the genus...
- one
notable exception being the
burning of
Genyornis (a type of
giant dromornithid bird
related to ducks) eggs****.
Megafauna species may have survived...
- (4 ft 3 in) in hip height, and 120 kg (260 lb) in weight. The
largest dromornithid was
Dromornis stirtoni over 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and 528–584 kg (1,164–1...
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University Press. p. 127. Murray, P. F.; Megirian, D. (1998). "The
skull of
dromornithid birds:
anatomical evidence for
their relationship to
Anseriformes (Dromornithidae...
- species. Some
dietary and
chronological data
previously ****igned to
dromornithids may
instead be ****igned to the
giant megapodes.
Megapodes share some...
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relatives the bathornithids), eogruids, geranoidids, gastornithiforms, and
dromornithids (all extinct) all
evolved similar body
shapes – long legs, long necks...
