Chaunoides

Chaunoides
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anhimidae
Genus: †Chaunoides
Alvarenga, 1999
Species:
†C. antiquus
Binomial name
†Chaunoides antiquus
Alvarenga, 1999

Chaunoides is an extinct genus of screamer. Only one species of this genus is known, Chaunoides antiquus from the upper Oligocene or lower Miocene Tremembé Formation of Brazil. It was smaller and more gracile than all living screamers.

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