Biology:Struthio orlovi
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Short description: Extinct species of bird
| Struthio orlovi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Struthionidae |
| Genus: | Struthio |
| Species: | S. orlovi
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| Binomial name | |
| Struthio orlovi Kuročkin & Lungo, 1970[1]
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Struthio orlovi is an extinct species of ostrich bird from the Miocene of Moldavia.[2] It was comparable in size to the extant Common Ostrich.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Zicha, Ondrej (1999)
- ↑ beautyofbirds.com (2010)
- ↑ Mikhailov, Konstantin E.; Zelenkov, Nikita (September 2020). "The late Cenozoic history of the ostriches (Aves: Struthionidae), as revealed by fossil eggshell and bone remains" (in en). Earth-Science Reviews 208. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103270. Bibcode: 2020ESRv..20803270M. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825220303160.
References
- "Ostriches". Wild Bird Web. Beauty of Birds. 2010. http://www.beautyofbirds.com/ostriches.html. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- Feduccia, Alan (1999). The Origin and Evolution of Birds (2nd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07861-7.
- Zicha, Ondrej. "Struthio orlovi". https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id464651/. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
Wikidata ☰ Q7625446 entry
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