Aves - Gruiformes - Hermosiornithidae

Alternative combination: Hermosiornis australis

Full reference: F. P. Moreno. 1889. Breve reseña de los progresos del Museo de la Plata, durante el segundo semestre de 1888. Boletin del Museo de La Plata 2:1-44

Belongs to Palaeociconia according to F. P. Moreno 1889

See also Lambrecht 1933, Moreno and Mercerat 1891 and Rovereto 1914

Sister taxa: Mesembriornis milneedwardsi, Mesembriornis quatrefagesi, Prophororhacos incertus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Monte Hermoso, which is in a Montehermosan terrestrial siltstone in the Monte Hermoso Formation of Argentina

Distribution: found only at Monte Hermoso

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