Family Struthionidae Vigors 1825 (ostrich)

Aves - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae

Parent taxon: Struthioniformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017

See also Boev and Spassov 2009, Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Kampouridis et al. 2020, Koufos et al. 2016, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Mayr 2022, Mlikovsky 2002, Mourer-Chauviré 2008 and Mourer-Chauvire and Geraads 2008

Sister taxa: Eleutherornithidae, Ergilornithidae, Geranoididae, Palaeotididae

Subtaxa: Struthio

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (2), Niger (2), South Africa (14), Sudan (5), Tanzania (16), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), South Africa (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kenya (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Malawi (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (3), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (2), South Africa (2)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Bulgaria (2), China (1), Greece (4), Iraq (1), Kenya (3), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), South Africa (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (6), the United Arab Emirates (1)

Total: 107 collections including 111 occurrences

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