Querandiornis

Querandiornis
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Genus: Querandiornis
Species: Q. romani
Binomial name
Querandiornis romani
Rusconi, 1958

Querandiornis romani was a species of bird from the clade Tinamidae that lived in the Pleistocene epoch, about 6 million years ago. Houde.[1]

References

  1. Houde, P.W. (1988) Paleognathous birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 22:1-148.
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