Paracrax ("near curassow") is a genus of extinct North American flightless birds, possibly related to modern seriemas and the extinct terror birds. Part...
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group, with Bathornis and kin being sister taxa to phorusrhacids while Paracrax is rendered closer to modern seriemas, though this assessment is heavily...
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niche in North America across the Eocene to Early Miocene; some, like Paracrax, were similar in size to the largest phorusrhacids. At least one analysis...
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as a polyphyletic group. It is usually considered the sister clade to Paracrax, and several authorities consider Neocathartes and several other taxa to...
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forms of mammals. At the top of the food chains were huge birds, such as Paracrax. Carbon dioxide levels were approximately 1,400 ppm. The temperature was...
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have also been suggested to be seriemas, as has the massive predatory Paracrax from the Oligocene of North America, though their status remains uncertain...
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"Oligocorax") mediterraneus is now considered to belong to the bathornithid Paracrax antiqua. "P." subvolans was actually a darter (Anhinga). Birds portal Animals...
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Othniel Charles Marsh in 1871. It has since been reassigned to the genus Paracrax, first interpreted as a cracid, then soon after as a bathornithid Cariamiformes...
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†Ameghinornithidae Strigogyps †Bathornithidae Bathornis Eutreptornis? Paracrax? †Eleutherornithidae Eleutherornis †Idiornithidae Gypsornis Idiornis Oblitavis...
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†Ameghinornithidae Strigogyps †Bathornithidae Bathornis Eutreptornis? Paracrax? †Eleutherornithidae Eleutherornis †Idiornithidae Gypsornis Idiornis Oblitavis...
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