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Accession No	1802.3171
Name/Title	Pachyornis geranoides (Mantell's Moa); articulated skeleton
Brief Description	Skeleton of a medium-sized moa, made up of mainly Pachyornis geranoides bones, and with missing bones made of brown modelling clay. Assembled from bones recovered from Makirikiri Swamp. Missing bones include atlas, axis, parts of the vertebrae, some phalanges and part of the maxilla. Although this skeleton has been labelled P. geranoides, its bones and skull seem more likely to be Anomalopteryx didiformis. It was repositioned in the 1990s with its right femur almost vertical, an anatomically-impossible angle.
Classification	Anomalopteryx didiformis/Anomalopteryx
Measurement Reading	123cm 55cm 95cm

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