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Phorusrhacos
Taxonomy
Phorusrhacos was named by Ameghino (1887). It is the type genus of Phororhacoidea.
It was corrected as Phororhacos by Ameghino (1889), Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Lambrecht (1933) and Wetmore (1960); it was misspelled as Phororhacos by Cracraft (1968), Mourer-Chauviré (1981), Carroll (1988), Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005), Bertelli et al. (2007), Vizcaíno et al. (2022) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Phororhacosidae by Ameghino (1889); to Stereornithidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891); to Phororhacidae by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1960) and Cracraft (1968); to Phorusrhacinae by Mourer-Chauviré (1981), Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005), Bertelli et al. (2007) and Vizcaíno et al. (2022); and to Phorusrhacidae by Carroll (1988) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was corrected as Phororhacos by Ameghino (1889), Moreno and Mercerat (1891), Lambrecht (1933) and Wetmore (1960); it was misspelled as Phororhacos by Cracraft (1968), Mourer-Chauviré (1981), Carroll (1988), Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005), Bertelli et al. (2007), Vizcaíno et al. (2022) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Phororhacosidae by Ameghino (1889); to Stereornithidae by Moreno and Mercerat (1891); to Phororhacidae by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1960) and Cracraft (1968); to Phorusrhacinae by Mourer-Chauviré (1981), Alvarenga and Holfing (2003), Gould and Quitmyer (2005), Bertelli et al. (2007) and Vizcaíno et al. (2022); and to Phorusrhacidae by Carroll (1988) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
Species
Phororhacos affinis, Phororhacos deautieri, P. longissimus (syn. Liornis minor, Darwinornis socialis, Stereornis gaudryi, Callornis giganteus, Titanornis mirabilis, Mesembriornis studeri, Owenornis lydekkeri, Stereornis rollieri, Owenornis affinis, Eucallornis giganteus, Darwinornis zitteli, Darwinornis copei, Phororhacos sehuensis, Mesembriornis quatrefragesi, Phororhacos platygnathus)
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1887 | Phorusrhacos Ameghino |
| 1889 | Phororhacos Ameghino p. 659 |
| 1891 | Stereornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 21 figs. Plate IX, Fig. 3; Plate X, Fig. 1, 2; Plate XI, Fig. 1 |
| 1891 | Darwinornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 24 figs. Plate XVII, Fig. 1-2 |
| 1891 | Owenornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 25 figs. Plate XVII, Fig. 6; Plate XVIII, Fig. 1 |
| 1891 | Phororhacos Moreno and Mercerat p. 44 |
| 1891 | Stereornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 45 |
| 1891 | Darwinornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 60 |
| 1891 | Owenornis Moreno and Mercerat p. 63 |
| 1893 | Stephanornis Mercerat p. 5 |
| 1893 | Titanornis Mercerat p. 5 |
| 1897 | Darwinornis Mercerat p. 229 |
| 1897 | Owenornis Mercerat p. 229 |
| 1897 | Titanornis Mercerat p. 229 |
| 1901 | Eucallornis Ameghino |
| 1933 | Phororhacos Lambrecht p. 501 |
| 1960 | Phororhacos Wetmore p. 27 |
| 1968 | Phororhacos Cracraft p. 33 |
| 1981 | Phorusrhacos Mourer-Chauviré p. 643 |
| 1988 | Phorusrhacos Carroll |
| 1988 | Titanornis Carroll |
| 2003 | Phorusrhacos Alvarenga and Holfing p. 71 |
| 2005 | Phorusrhacos Gould and Quitmyer p. 205 figs. Table 2 |
| 2007 | Phorusrhacos Bertelli et al. p. 415 figs. Table 2 |
| 2022 | Phorusrhacos Vizcaíno et al. |
| 2023 | Phorusrhacos Tambussi et al. p. 277 |
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G. †Phorusrhacos Ameghino 1887
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†Phororhacos affinis Ameghino 1899
†Phororhacos deautieri Kraglievich 1931
†Phororhacos longissimus mendocinus Kragkievich, 1931
†Phorusrhacos longissimus Ameghino 1887
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Invalid names: Callornis giganteus Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Darwinornis copei Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Darwinornis socialis Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Darwinornis zitteli Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Eucallornis giganteus Ameghino 1901 [synonym], Liornis minor Dolgopol de Saez 1927 [synonym], Mesembriornis quatrefragesi Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Mesembriornis studeri Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Owenornis affinis Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Owenornis lydekkeri Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Phororhacos platygnathus Ameghino 1891 [synonym], Phororhacos sehuensis Ameghino 1891 [synonym], Stereornis gaudryi Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Stereornis rollieri Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Titanornis mirabilis Mercerat 1893 [synonym]
Invalid names: Darwinornis Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Eucallornis Ameghino 1901 [synonym], Owenornis Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Stephanornis Mercerat 1893 [synonym], Stereornis Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Titanornis Mercerat 1893 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available