Aves - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae

Synonyms: Morenomerceraria cristata Moreno and Mercerat 1891, Palaeociconia cristata Moreno and Mercerat 1891, Phororhacos inflatus Ameghino 1891

Full reference: F. P. Moreno and A. Mercerat. 1891. Catálogo de los pájaros fósiles de la República Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata [Catalogue of the fossil birds from the Argentine Republic housed in the Museo de La Plata]. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 1:7-71

Belongs to Patagornis according to S. F. Vizcaíno et al. 2022

See also Alvarenga and Holfing 2003, Ameghino 1894, Bertelli et al. 2007, Brodkorb 1952, Gould and Quitmyer 2005, Lambrecht 1933, Moreno and Mercerat 1891 and Tambussi et al. 2023

Sister taxon: Tolmodus inflatus

Type specimens:

• Patagornis marshi: Museo de La Plata, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Santa Cruz Formation, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.
• Palaeociconia cristata: Museo de La Plata, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is Santa Cruz Formation, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.
• Phororhacos inflatus:

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

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