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Mesembriornis
Taxonomy
Mesembriornis was named by Moreno (1889).
It was synonymized subjectively with Phororhacos by Ameghino (1894).
It was assigned to Gastornithidae by Zittel (1890); to Stereornithidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891); to Mesembriornithinae by Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005) and Bertelli et al. (2007); and to Phorusrhacidae by Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Phororhacos by Ameghino (1894).
It was assigned to Gastornithidae by Zittel (1890); to Stereornithidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891); to Mesembriornithinae by Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005) and Bertelli et al. (2007); and to Phorusrhacidae by Tambussi et al. (2023).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1889 | Prociconia Ameghino |
| 1889 | Mesembriornis Moreno p. 29 |
| 1889 | Palaeociconia Moreno p. 30 |
| 1890 | Mesembriornis Zittel p. 837 |
| 1891 | Mesembriornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 49 |
| 1914 | Prophororhacos Rovereto p. 114 |
| 1914 | Hermosiornis Rovereto p. 163 |
| 1933 | Palaeociconia Lambrecht p. 321 |
| 1933 | Prophororhacos Lambrecht p. 508 |
| 1933 | Hermosiornis Lambrecht p. 516 |
| 1960 | Hermosiornis Wetmore p. 27 |
| 1981 | Palaeociconia Mourer-Chauviré p. 643 |
| 1981 | Prophororhacos Mourer-Chauviré p. 643 |
| 2003 | Mesembriornis Alvarenga and Holfing p. 86 |
| 2005 | Mesembriornis Gould and Quitmyer p. 205 figs. Table 2 |
| 2007 | Mesembriornis Bertelli et al. p. 415 |
| 2023 | Mesembriornis Tambussi et al. p. 279 |
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G. †Mesembriornis Moreno 1889
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†Mesembriornis milneedwardsi Moreno 1889
†Mesembriornis quatrefagesi Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Invalid names: Hermosiornis Rovereto 1914 [synonym], Palaeociconia Moreno 1889 [synonym], Prophororhacos [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available