Sylviornis - Wikipedia
Sylviornis is an extinct genus of large, flightless bird that was endemic to the islands of New Caledonia in the Western Pacific.
The "giant chickens" of New Caledonia - Earth Archives
The strange extinct avian rulers of New Caledonia named Sylviornis, were among the oddest large birds ever to exist. For a long time we puzzled about what they were, only to find out that were indeed real “giant chickens”.
Sylviornithidae - Wikipedia
†Sylviornis Sylviornithidae is an extinct family of flightless birds , known from subfossil bones found in Holocene aged deposits on the Melanesian islands of New Caledonia and Fiji . For many years it was considered a monotypic family consisting of the New Calendonia Sylviornis alone, but recent studies show that the Fijian Megavitiornis was ...
Paleo Profile: New Caledonia’s Giant Fowl - National Geographic
2016年4月1日 · Strange earthen mounds on New Caledonia were thought to be the nests of the massive Sylviornis. But this connection relied on the idea that the big bird was a megapode, as these birds ...
Sylviornis - mindat.org
Sylviornis is an extinct genus of stem-galliform bird containing a single species, S. neocaledoniae, or erroneously, "New Caledonian giant megapode". Technically, the latter is incorrect because it has recently been found not to be a megapode, but one of two genera in the family Sylviornithidae; at the time of its description, it was believed ...
Osteology Supports a Stem-Galliform Affinity for the Giant Extinct ...
2016年3月30日 · Sylviornis neocaledoniae is found to be a stem galliform, distant from megapodiids, and the sister taxon to the extinct flightless Megavitiornis altirostris from Fiji, which we transfer to the family Sylviornithidae. These two species form the sister group to extant crown-group galliforms.
The endocast of the insular and extinct Sylviornis neocaledoniae …
2022年12月7日 · Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Galliformes, Sylviornithidae), a recently extinct bird of New-Caledonia (Galliformes, Sylviornithidae) is the largest galliform that ever lived and one of the most...
The endocast of the insular and extinct Sylviornis neocaledoniae
2022年12月7日 · Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Galliformes, Sylviornithidae), a recently extinct bird of New‑Caledonia (Galliformes, Sylviornithidae) is the largest galliform that ever lived and one of the most enigmatic birds in the world.
(Sylviornis) - Avian Discovery
Belonging to the order of Galliformes, the genus Sylviornis is best known for its significant role in prehistoric ecosystems. These flightless birds inhabited lush forests, showcasing a variety of remarkable adaptations that catered to their environments.
Island Weirdness #38 — Sylviornis neocaledoniae – Nix Illustration
One of the strangest residents of these islands was Sylviornis neocaledoniae, a huge flightless bird standing around 0.75m tall (2’6″) and measuring about 1.7m long (5’7″).