Asian ostrich
| Asian ostrich Temporal range: 3.6–0.008 Ma | |
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| Asian ostrich skeleton | |
| Extinct (before 13,000-7,000 BC) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Struthionidae |
| Genus: | Struthio |
| Species: | S. asiaticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards, 1871[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Struthio indicus | |
The Asian or Asiatic ostrich (Struthio asiaticus), is an extinct species of ostrich that ranged from Morocco, the Middle East to China and Mongolia. Fossils date from the upper Pliocene to the early Holocene (3.6mya - c.6000BC).[2]
Asian ostrich egg shells
Asian ostriches were widespread around Europe and Asia. They also used to live in northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern Siberia. In China, it is known that Asiatic ostriches became extinct at the end or shortly after the end of the last Ice Age.
See also
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
Footnotes
References
- Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1899). A Handlist of the Genera and Species of Birds. Vol. I. Red Lion Court Fleet Street, London UK: Taylor and Francis. p. 2. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- Paleobiology Database (2012). "Struthio asiaticus". Paleobiology Database. Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 14 Jun 2012.
- Janz, Lisa; Robert G. Elston; George S. Burr (2009). Dating North Asian Surface Assemblages with Ostrich Eggshell: implications for palaeoecology and extirpation 36. p. 1982. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
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