Hinasuri
Extinct genus of birds
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Hinasuri is an extinct genus of rheid from the Montehermosan. Its fossils have been found in the Monte Hermoso Formation of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The type species is H. nehuensis. Hinasuri was a robust rheid bird, living at a time of increasingly extreme temperatures and decreased precipitation in the Pampean region during the Pliocene–Pleistocene.[1]
| Hinasuri Temporal range: Montehermosan | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Rheiformes |
| Family: | Rheidae |
| Genus: | †Hinasuri Tambussi 1995 |
| Type species | |
| Hinasuri nehuensis Tambussi 1995 | |
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