Barawertornis

Barawertornis
Temporal range: Possible Middle Miocene record
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Superorder: Galloanserae
Family: †Dromornithidae
Genus: †Barawertornis
Rich, 1979
Species:
†B. tedfordi
Binomial name
†Barawertornis tedfordi
Rich, 1979

Barawertornis is an extinct genus of cassowary-sized dromornithid known from Oligocene and Miocene deposits in Queensland and South Australia. Only a single species, B. tedfordi, is placed in this genus. It shows adaptations towards a cursorial lifestyle. Like other dromornithids, Barawertornis was probably a folivorous and frugivorous browser.

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