- Dromornithidae,
known as
mihirungs (after T****wuring
Mihirung paringmal, "giant bird") and
informally as
thunder birds or
demon ducks, were a
clade of...
-
Pelagornithidae and
Anseriformes paleontologists also have
support in
placing mihirungs (Dromornithidae) and
Gastornithids into this group, as they too also share...
-
belong to the
family Dromornithidae,
extinct flightless birds known as
mihirungs. The
genus was
erected to
separate a new species,
Dromornis australis...
- albatross-like
pseudotooth birds and the
giant flightless gastornithids and
mihirungs have been
found to be stem-anseriforms
based on
common features found...
- the form of Gastornis, eogruiids, bathornithids, ratites, geranoidids,
mihirungs, and "terror birds"). It is
often stated that
mammals out-competed the...
-
phylogenetic support in
finding the
mihirungs (Dromornithidae) to be the
sister taxon to the Gastornis. The
mihirungs are also
another family of
giant flightless...
-
raised triangular casque. This goose-like bill
differed from even
other mihirungs, and may have been a
specialization for
feeding on
aquatic vegetation...
-
Barawertornis tedfordi was a
dromornithid (
mihirung), a
large flightless fowl
hailing from Late
Oligocene to
Early Miocene. The only
species in the genus...
- and an emu-like
lower leg and foot. In addition, the
first fossils of
mihirungs were
initially believed to be from
giant emus, but
these birds were completely...
- tall, and
weighed approximately half as much as a
large elephant bird or
mihirung due to its
comparatively slender frame. The
largest species of tinamou...
