Terror-bird (NHMW-Geo 2012/0007/0001)

3D Model

3D scan of a Terror-bird model from the species Paraphysornis brasiliensis. Members of the Phorusrhacidae family are commonly known under the term “Terror-birds”. Species of these apex predators could reach a height up to 3 meters! They lived mainly in South America from the early Tertiary (55 million years ago) until the late glacial period.

This model can be found in Hall 9 at the NHM Vienna.

Specimen: Paraphysornis brasiliensis (Alvarenga, 1982)

Inventory number: NHMW-Geo 2012/0007/0001

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

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Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.