Dromornithidae
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Dromornithidae

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Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs (after Tjapwuring Mihirung paringmal, "giant bird") and informally as thunder birds or demon ducks, is an extinct family of large, flightless birds native to Australia from at least the late Oligocene (and perhaps as early as the early Eocene) to the Late Pleistocene. They were long classified in Struthioniformes (the ratites), but are now usually classified as a

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Dromornithids
Temporal range: Oligocene - Pleistocene, 25–0.03 Ma Possible Eocene record
Dromornis stirtoni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Pangalloanserae
Superorder: Galloanserae
Family: Dromornithidae
Fürbringer, 1888
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