Terror Birds
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Family | Ameghino |
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Extinction status | Extinct |
Scientific name | Phorusrhacidae |
Phylum | Chordata |
Order | Cariamiformes |
Rank | Family |
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ID | 2424128 |
About Terror Birds
Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their conventionally accepted temporal range covers from 62 to 1. 8 million years ago.