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- Sylviornis abstract "Sylviornis is an extinct genus of galliform bird containing a single species, S. neocaledoniae, or erroneously, "New Caledonian Giant Megapode". Technically, the latter is incorrect because it has recently been found not to be a megapode, but the sole known member of its own family, the Sylviornithidae; at the time of its description, it was believed to be a ratite. Sylviornis was never encountered alive by scientists, but it is known from many thousands of subfossil bones found in deposits, some of them from the Holocene, on New Caledonia and the adjacent Île des Pins. Sylviornis was a huge, flightless bird, 1.7 m (5.6 ft) long altogether, and weighing around 30 kg (66 lb) on average. It is the most massive galliform known to have ever existed. It had a large skull with a high and laterally compressed beak surmounted by a bony knob. Its legs were rather short, but had strong toes with long nails. The skeleton has a number of peculiarities and differences that make Sylviornis stand apart from all other known birds: the clavicles were not fused to a furcula, the number of caudal vertebrae was very high, and the ribcage and pelvis were almost dinosaurian in appearance. The wings were reduced to small stubs.A large proportion—up to 50% in some deposits—of the remains found were from juvenile animals. Thus, it has been theorized that Sylviornis had a clutch of at least two, more probably closer to 10 eggs, and that the average lifespan was not much more than 5–7 years, which would be extremely low for such a large bird. Apparently, the bird did not incubate its eggs but built a mound similar to the megapodes. Tumuli on the Île des Pins which were initially believed to be graves were found to contain no human remains or grave goods, and it has been hypothesized that they were in reality the incubation mounds of Sylviornis. As these mounds are up to 5 m high and 50 m wide even after nearly four millennia, they seem too large to have been made by the giant scrubfowl, an extinct New Caledonian species of megapode.Little can be said about the lifestyle of Sylviornis. It was probably a slow-moving browser, and the structure of the bill and feet suggest that roots and tubers it dug up formed a major part of its diet.".
- Sylviornis class Bird.
- Sylviornis kingdom Animal.
- Sylviornis order Galliformes.
- Sylviornis phylum Chordate.
- Sylviornis thumbnail Sylviornis.jpg?width=300.
- Sylviornis wikiPageExternalLink sylviornis-and-dynasty-of-du.html.
- Sylviornis wikiPageExternalLink SCtZ-0469-Hi_res.pdf.
- Sylviornis wikiPageID "5704976".
- Sylviornis wikiPageLength "5771".
- Sylviornis wikiPageOutDegree "44".
- Sylviornis wikiPageRevisionID "671986101".
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink 1500_BC.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink 1500s_BC_(decade).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Biodiversity_of_New_Caledonia.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_birds_of_New_Caledonia.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_flightless_birds.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Galliformes.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Holocene_extinctions.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Late_Quaternary_prehistoric_birds.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Megafauna_of_Oceania.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:Monotypic_bird_genera.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Category:New_Caledonia_Holocene_fauna.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Clavicle.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Clutch_(animal).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Clutch_(eggs).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Cécile_Mourer-Chauviré.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Dinosaur.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Extinct.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Furcula.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Galliformes.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Grave_goods.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Holocene.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Holocene_extinction.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Island_gigantism.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Pines,_New_Caledonia.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Pines_(New_Caledonia).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Jean-Christophe_Balouet.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Jean_Christophe_Balouet.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Kanak_people.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Lapita.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Lapita_culture.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Late_Quaternary_prehistoric_birds.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Megapode.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Musxc3xa9um_national_dhistoire_naturelle.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink National_Museum_of_Natural_History_(France).
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink New_Caledonia.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Oral_history.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Pile-builder_megapode.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Ratite.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Storrs_L._Olson.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Storrs_Olson.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Subfossil.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink Vertebra.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLink File:Sylviornis_neocaledoniae_skull.JPG.
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLinkText "New Caledonian giant scrubfowl".
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sylviornis".
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLinkText "giant megapode".
- Sylviornis wikiPageWikiLinkText "sylviornis".
- Sylviornis binomial "Sylviornis neocaledoniae".
- Sylviornis binomialAuthority "Poplin, 1980".
- Sylviornis classis Bird.
- Sylviornis familia "Sylviornithidae".
- Sylviornis familiaAuthority "Mourer-Chauviré & Balouet, 2005".
- Sylviornis fossilRange Holocene.
- Sylviornis genus "Sylviornis".
- Sylviornis genusAuthority "Poplin, 1980".
- Sylviornis hasPhotoCollection Sylviornis.
- Sylviornis imageCaption "Sylviornis neocaledoniae skull fragment and tibia, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris".
- Sylviornis imageWidth "250".
- Sylviornis name "Sylviornis".
- Sylviornis ordo Galliformes.
- Sylviornis phylum Chordate.
- Sylviornis regnum "Animalia".
- Sylviornis species "S. neocaledoniae".
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- Sylviornis subject Category:Extinct_birds_of_New_Caledonia.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Extinct_flightless_birds.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Galliformes.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Holocene_extinctions.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Late_Quaternary_prehistoric_birds.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Megafauna_of_Oceania.
- Sylviornis subject Category:Monotypic_bird_genera.
- Sylviornis subject Category:New_Caledonia_Holocene_fauna.
- Sylviornis type Animal.
- Sylviornis type Article.
- Sylviornis type Bird.
- Sylviornis type Eukaryote.
- Sylviornis type Species.
- Sylviornis type Article.
- Sylviornis type Thing.