†Zheroia kurochkini Nessov 1988 (bird)
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Aves - Ralliformes - Laornithidae
Full reference: L. A. Nessov. 1988. Novye ptitsy Mela i Paleogena spedney Azii i Kazakhstana i usloviya na mestakh ikh obitaniya [New Cretaceous and Paleogene birds from Central Asia and Kazakhstan and their environments]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 182:116-123
Belongs to Zheroia according to L. A. Nessov 1988
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PO 3469, a limb element (tibiotarsus). Its type locality is Dzheroi 2, which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Uzbekistan.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Dzheroi 2
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