Orthonyx hypsilophus Baird 1985 (logrunner)

Aves - Passeriformes - Orthonychidae

Full reference: R. F. Baird. 1985. Avian fossils from Quaternary deposits in 'Green Waterhole Cave', south-eastern South Australia . Records of the Australian Museum 37:353-370

Belongs to Orthonyx according to R. F. Baird 1985

See also Worthy and Nguyen 2020

Sister taxa: Orthonyx kaldowinyeri, Orthonyx wakefieldi

Type specimen: SAM P.24444, a set of postcrania (incomplete pelvis). Its type locality is Green Waterhole Cave, which is in a Pleistocene sinkhole horizon in Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Green Waterhole Cave

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