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Asian ostrich Temporal range: Neogene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Asian ostrich skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Palaeognathae
Order:	Struthioniformes
Family:	Struthionidae
Genus:	Struthio
Species:	†S. asiaticus
Binomial name
†Struthio asiaticus Milne-Edwards, 1871[1]
Synonyms
Struthio indicus Bidwell, 1910 Struthio palaeindicus Falconer 1868 nomen nudum Megaloscelornis sivalensis Lydekker 1879

The Asian or Asiatic ostrich (Struthio asiaticus) is an extinct species of ostrich that lived during the Neogene period on the Indian subcontinent.

The early records that ranged from the Pliocene Epoch in Africa to the Pleistocene-Holocene Epoch in northeastern Asia are considered dubious.^[2] Beads made from shells taken from archaeological sites in India dating to more than 25,000 years were found to have traces of DNA and analysis of sequences examined from them show that the species is definitely in the genus Struthio.^[3]

Asian ostriches were large, being more robustly built and reaching about the same height as an adult male of the extant common ostrich. It may have had short toes, but this is considered a tentative assumption.^[2][4] A specimen from the Pliocene of Morocco could be 20% bigger than an adult male of the extant Struthio camelus,^[5] but the African specimens are considered dubious, and the "exact proportions are difficult to reconstruct on the basis of the available material."^[2]

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• Buffetaut, E. (2022). Feduccia, A. (ed.). "The First-Named Fossil Ostrich: A Revision of Struthio asiaticus, from the Siwaliks of India". Diversity. 14 (10): 860. doi:10.3390/d14100860.
• Jain, Sonal; Rai, Niraj; Kumar, Giriraj; Pruthi, Parul Aggarwal; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Bajpai, Sunil; Pruthi, Vikas (2017). "Ancient DNA Reveals Late Pleistocene Existence of Ostriches in Indian Sub-Continent". PLOS ONE. 12 (3) e0164823. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1264823J. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164823. PMC 5342186. PMID 28273082.
• Mayr, Gerald (October 31, 2016). Avian Evolution. The Fossil Record of Birds and Its Paleobiological Significance. Wiley. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-119-02076-9. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
• Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile; Geraads, Denis (January 2008). "The Struthionidae and Pelagornithidae (Aves: Struthioniformes, Odontopterygiformes) from the late Pliocene of Ahl Al Oughlam, Morocco". Oryctos. 7: 169–194.

• Paleobiology Database (2012). "Struthio asiaticus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 14 Jun 2012.
• Routledge, Jennifer (2020). "Ostrich Eggshell from the Far Eastern Steppe: Stable Isotopic Exploration of Range, Commodification, and Extirpation". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020

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