Patagorhacos

Patagorhacos
Temporal range: Miocene (Colhuehuapian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cariamiformes
Family: †Phorusrhacidae
Genus: †Patagorhacos
Agnolin & Chafrat, 2015
Species:
†P. terrificus
Binomial name
†Patagorhacos terrificus
Agnolin & Chafrat, 2015

Patagorhacos is an extinct genus of medium-sized phorusrhacid from the early Miocene of Patagonia. Currently only the single species Patagorhacos terrificus is known, which is represented by two highly fragmentary specimen, one belonging to the back of the skull and the other being the distal end of a leg bone. It was described together with the contemporary rheid Opisthodactylus horacioperezi.

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