Emuarius is an extinct genus of casuariiform flightless bird from Australia that lived during the early Miocene and late Oligocene. It is one of two known genera of emu. [3] There are two known species in the genus, Emuarius gidju and Emuarius guljaruba. The birds in this genus are known as emuwaries. This name comes from a combination of emu ...

Emuarius is an extinct genus of flightless bird from Australia that lived during the early Miocene and late Oligocene. It is one of two known genera of emu. There are two known species in the genus, Emuarius gidju and Emuarius guljaruba. The birds in this genus are known as emuwaries.

The Casuariiformes / kæsjuːˈæri.ɪfɔːrmiːz / is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu. They are divided into either a single family, Casuariidae, or occasionally two, with the emu splitting off into its own family, Dromaiidae.

The Australian fossil record reveals no other extinct ratite families but there are a number of other casuariid species. Most significant of these, due to its Oligo-Miocene age and because it is known from abundant material, is Emuarius gidju.

Emuarius is what it’s name suggests - a bird that is in many ways an intermediate between the modern Emu and the modern Cassowary, which are more closely related to each other today than either are to any other bird. Emuarius has two species that lived in Australia - E. guljaruba in the Oligocene and E. gidju in the Miocene of Riversleigh. It ...

The bird family Casuariidae / kæsjuːəˈraɪ.ɪdiː / has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu. All living members of the family are very large flightless birds native to Australia-New Guinea. [2] The fossil record of casuariforms is interesting, but not very extensive.

Dec 21, 2019 · The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is an iconic member of the modern Australian terrestrial vertebrate fauna and its largest extant native bird. The emu is the sole surviving member of the Dromaiinae, which is the sister taxon of Casuariinae, a clade that includes the extant cassowaries (Casuarius).

Nov 5, 2019 · Previously, remains of the new species had been referred to the basal dromaiine genus, Emuarius, but phylogenetic appraisal of new specimens indicates that the species shared a more recent common ancestor with the extant Dromaius novaehollandiae than it did with the type species of Emuarius, E. gidju.

Most significant of these, due to its Oligo–Miocene age and because it is known from abundant material, is Emuarius gidju. Here, we describe additional material and confirm that the taxon had a temporal range of Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene (approximately 24–15 Ma).

Emuarius Boles, 1992 Type species: Dromaius gidju Patterson & Rich, 1987 (=Emuarius gidju Boles, 1992) References [edit] Primary references [edit] Boles, W.E. 1992. Revision of Dromaius gidju Patterson and Rich, 1987 from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with a reassessment of its generic position.