Meganhinga

Meganhinga
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Anhingidae
Genus: †
Species:
†M. chilensis
Binomial name
†Meganhinga chilensis
Alvarenga, 1995

Meganhinga is an extinct genus of anhingid that lived during the Miocene epoch.

Distribution

Meganhinga chilensis is known from the Cura-Mallín Formation of Chile.[1]

References

  1. ^ Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1995). "A Large and Probably Flightless Anhinga from the Miocene of Chile". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 181: 149–161.


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