The Casuariiformes /kæsjuːˈæri.ɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the...
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elephant birds) very shortly after in the early Eocene, and finally Casuariiformes and tinamous (and presumably moas) diverging from one another in the...
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Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Infraclass: Palaeognathae Order: Casuariiformes Family: Casuariidae Genus: Casuarius Species: C. lydekkeri Binomial...
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†Diogenornis de Alvarenga 1983 (Late Paleocene) – possibly a member of Casuariiformes instead. Genus †Opisthodactylus Ameghino 1895 (Miocene) – rheid? Family...
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List of bird genera (section Casuariiformes)
List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and...
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Palaeognathae Struthioniformes (ostriches) Rheiformes (rheas) Tinamiformes (tinamous) Apterygiformes (kiwis) Casuariiformes (emus and cassowaries)...
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'horned head' ) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on...
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Rheidae (rheas) Casuariiformes (emu, cassowary)...
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List of birds (section Order Casuariiformes)
Casuariiformes (cassowaries & emus)...
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originally defined to contain the recent common ancestors of the orders Casuariiformes (emus and cassowaries) and Apterygiformes (kiwis). Recently it has been...
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