Aves - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Alternative spelling: Phororhacidae
Synonyms: Darwinornithidae Moreno and Mercerat 1891, Devincenziidae Kraglievich 1932, Mesembriorniidae Kraglievich 1932
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic]. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6:xxxii-1027
Parent taxon: Cariamae according to D. Angst et al. 2013
See also Alvarenga and Holfing 2003 and Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Sister taxa: Ameghinornithidae, Cariamides, Gradiornis, Idiornithidae, Itaboravis, Otides, Phororhacoidea, Phororhacosidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida collections), Uruguay (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (8)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (31), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1)
• Deseadan of Argentina (5), Bolivia (1), Peru (2), Uruguay (1)
• Oligocene of Brazil (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Brazil (1), France (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 67 collections including 108 occurrences