Andalgalornis [SEP] parent taxon
Andalgalornis
Andalgalornis is a genus of flightless predatory birds of the extinct family Phorusrhacidae (often called "terror birds") that lived in Argentina. The type and only species is A. steulleti.
"Andalgalornis" is known from an incomplete skeleton and some single bones found from sites in the Entre Ríos and Catamarca Provinces of northeast and northwest Argentina. The fossils were uncovered from the Late Miocene (Huayquerian in the SALMA classification) Ituzaingó Formation of the Paraná Basin.
Description.
"Andalgalornis" stood around one and
" ; "Prophororhacos australis" ]
- †"M. incertus" ["Prophororhacos incertus" ]
- †"Patagornis marshi" ["Morenomercatia" ; "Tolmodus" ; "Tolmodus inflatus" ; "Phorusrhacos inflatus" ; "Paleociconia cristata" ; "Morenomerceraria cristata" ] (Early – Middle Miocene)
- †"Andrewsornis abbotti" (middle – Late Oligocene)
- †"Andalgalornis steulleti" ["Phororhacos steulleti" Kraglijevič 1931; "Phororhacos deautieri" ; "Andalgalornis ferox" ] (Late Miocene – Early Pliocene)