Procariama

Procariama
Temporal range: Late Miocene - Late Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cariamiformes
Family: Phorusrhacidae
Genus: Procariama
Rovereto, 1914
Species: Procariama simplex
Binomial name
Procariama simplex
Rovereto, 1914

Procariama is an extinct Monotypic genus of giant flightless predatory birds, reaching 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, in the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds" which lived in Argentina.[1]


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