Meganhinga
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Anhingidae |
| Genus: | †Meganhinga |
| Species: | †M. chilensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Meganhinga chilensis Alvarenga, 1995
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Meganhinga is an extinct genus of anhingid that lived during the Miocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Meganhinga chilensis is known from the Cura-Mallín Formation of Chile.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1995). "A Large and Probably Flightless Anhinga from the Miocene of Chile". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 181: 149–161.
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