| North Island Broad-billed moa | |
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| Skull and foot bones | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Superorder: | Paleognathae |
| Order: | Struthioniformes |
| Family: | Dinornithidae |
| Genus: | Euryapteryx |
| Species: | Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846) |
| Binomial name | |
| Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846)[1] |
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Euryapteryx curtus, or North Island Broad-billed Moa, or Coastal Moa was a species of Moa. It is now extinct. Fossil evidence suggests that it lived on the North Island only, and its habitat was in the lowlands (dunelands, forests, shrublands, and grasslands).[2] It was a ratite and a member of the Struthioniformes Order. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. The origin of these birds is becoming clearer as it is now believed that early ancestors of these birds were able to fly and flew to the southern areas that they have been found in.[2]