Struthio anderssoni

East Asian ostrich
Temporal range:
Egg and limb of S. anderssoni, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Struthioniformes
Family: Struthionidae
Genus: Struthio
Species:
S. anderssoni
Binomial name
Struthio anderssoni

Struthio anderssoni, also known as the East Asian ostrich, is a large extinct species of ostrich that lived in the Pleistocene and Holocene in China, Mongolia and Russia. It was much larger than extant ostriches, with estimated mass of 250–270 kg (550–600 lb).

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