East Asian ostrich Temporal range:
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Egg and limb of S. anderssoni, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Struthioniformes |
Family: | Struthionidae |
Genus: | Struthio |
Species: | S. anderssoni
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Binomial name | |
Struthio anderssoni Percy Lowe, 1931[1]
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Struthio anderssoni, also known as the East Asian ostrich,[2] is an extinct species of ostrich that lived in the Pleistocene and Holocene in China and Mongolia. In 2023, based on a re-examination of cast of a femur, it was suggested that this species be moved the genus Pachystruthio.[3]