Menura_tyawanoides

<i>Menura tyawanoides</i>

Menura tyawanoides

Extinct species of bird

Menura tyawanoides is an extinct species of lyrebird from the Early Miocene of Australia. It was described by Walter Boles from fossil material (a complete left carpometacarpus) found in terrestrial limestone at the Upper Site of Riversleigh, in the Boodjamulla National Park of north-western Queensland. It was smaller than the two living species of lyrebirds. The specific epithet comes from tyawan (a Kumbainggiri term for the superb lyrebird) and the Greek suffix –oides (“resembling”).[1]

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  1. [1]
    Boles, W. E. (1995). "A preliminary analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a new species of lyrebird" (PDF). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 181: 163–170.


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