| Asian Ostrich Temporal range: early Pliocene–Pleistocene Early Pliocene to Pleistocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Struthionidae |
| Genus: | Struthio |
| Species: | S. asiaticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards, 1871[1] |
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The Asian Ostrich, Struthio asiaticus, was an ostrich found in the Pliocene from Central Asia to China.
In China, ostriches are known to have become extinct only around or even after the end of the last ice age; images of ostriches have been found there on prehistoric pottery and as petroglyphs indicating that they were around at the same time as humans first reached China.
Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1899) A Handlist of the Genera and Species of Birds Vol. I Red Lion Court Fleet Street, London UK: Taylor and Francis p. 2 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34493#4. Retrieved 02/01/2010