Pygmy Cassowary
Casuarius lydekkeri
The pygmy cassowary or small cassowary (Casuarius lydekkeri) is an extinct species of cassowary native to New South Wales and Papua New Guinea.
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Description
Remains attributed to the species are generally around the size of the living dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti). Remains attributed to C. lydekkeri differ from living cassowaries in a number of morphological characters, including "a shallower, narrower pelvis, more gracile femur and a narrower proximal [closer to hip] end to the tarsometatarsus".
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 526758.