Devincenzia

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Devincenzia (in honor of Garibaldi Devincenzi) is an extinct genus of phorusrhacid, a group of predominantly large, predatory flightless birds commonly known as terror birds. The first fossil attributed to the genus, an incomplete tarsometatarsus (lower leg bone) and toe bone, were described in 1931 by Uruguayan naturalist Lucas Kraglievich as coming from a new species of Phorusrhacos, P. pozzi. This specimen was discovered in sediments of the Ituzaingó Formation in Paraná, Río Negro Province in southern Argentina. Strata of this formation comes from the Huayquerian SALMA (South American Land Mammal Ages; a series of fauna-based time periods), which dates to the Late Miocene between 9 and 6.8 million years ago. The next year, Kraglievich named a new genus and species of giant bird, Devincenzia gallinali, on the basis of a nearly complete tarsometatarsus that was found in an unknown locality in southern Uruguay. It likely comes from the Arroyo Roman, which bears localities dating to the...

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