Onactornis depressus Cabrera 1939 (terror bird)

Aves - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae

Full reference: A. Cabrera. 1939. Sobre Vertebrados Fósiles del Plioceno de Adolfo Alsina. Revista del Museo de La Plata 2(6):3-35

Belongs to Onactornis according to Cabrera 1939

Sister taxa: Devincenzia gallinali, Devincenzia pozzi

Type specimen: MLP 37-III-7-8, a partial skull (Cdneo incomplelo )' sin la mandíbula, primera falange del ter- cer dedo y primera falange del srgnndo dedo). Its type locality is Robilotte field - SE of Epecuén lagoon & E of Laguna de Epecuén, which is in a Huayquerian terrestrial siltstone/siltstone in the Epecuén Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Robilotte field - SE of Epecuén lagoon & E of Laguna de Epecuén

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