''Querandiornis romani'' was a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
Tinamid bird that lived during the
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...
.
[Houde, P.W. (1988) Paleognathous birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere. ''Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club'', 22:1-148.]
References
Pleistocene birds
Tinamiformes
Fossil taxa described in 1958
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