Eleutherornis

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Eleutherornis
Temporal range: Lutetian
Eocene
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E. cotei material from Switzerland
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Eleutherornis

Schaub, 1940
Binomial name
Eleutherornis cotei
Gaillard, 1936

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Location of E. cotei finds
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E. cotei material from France

Eleutherornis cotei is a medium sized (estimated to be 1.5 meters tall) extinct flightless predatory bird, in the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" whose remains have been found in Middle Eocene aged strata from France and Switzerland.[1]

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