Titanis
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| Titanis Temporal range: Early to Late Pliocene |
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| Reconstruction of Titanis with hypothetical wing-claws | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Phorusrhacidae |
| Genus: | Titanis Brodkorb, 1963 |
| Species: | T. walleri |
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| Titanis walleri Brodkorb, 1963 |
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Titanis was a prehistoric flightless bird. Its name means 'giant'. Titanus was a genus of terror birds (the Phorusrhacidae). They were dominant land carnivores in South America through much of the Cainozoic.
