Asian ostrich
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Extinct (before 13,000-7,000 BC)
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S. asiaticus
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| Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards, 1871[1]
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Struthio indicus |
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The Asian or Asiatic ostrich (Struthio asiaticus), is an extinct species of ostrich that ranged from Morocco, the Middle East to China and Mongolia. Fossils date from the upper Pliocene to the early Holocene (3.6-.008mya).[2]
Asian ostriches were widespread around Europe and Asia. They also used to live in northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern Siberia. In China, it is known that Asiatic ostriches became extinct at the end or shortly after the end of the last Ice Age.
See also
Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
Footnotes
References
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