†Menura tyawanoides Boles 1995 (lyrebird)
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Aves - Passeriformes - Menuridae
Full reference: W. E. Boles. 1995. A preliminary analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a new species of Lyrebird. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 181:163-170
Belongs to Menura according to W. E. Boles 1995
See also Worthy and Nguyen 2020
Sister taxon: Menura novaehollandiae
Type specimen: QM F.20887 (AR 11466), a limb element (complete left carpometacarpus). Its type locality is Upper Site, which is in an Aquitanian/Burdigalian terrestrial limestone in the System B Formation of Australia.
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution: found only at Upper Site
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