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| Casuariiformes Temporal range: Possible Paleocene appearance.
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| Southern cassowary | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Clade: | Novaeratitae |
| Order: | Casuariiformes (Sclater, 1880) Forbes, 1884[1] |
| Families | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 family, 4 genera (including 2 extinct), 9 species (including 5 extinct) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The Casuariiformes /kæsjuːˈæri.ɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu. They are divided into either a single family, Casuariidae, or more typically two, with the emu splitting off into its own family, Dromaiidae.
All four living members are native to Australia-New Guinea,[3] but some possible extinct taxa occurred in other landmasses.
- ^ Brand, S. (2008)
- ^ Brodkob, Pierce (1963). "Catalogue of fossil birds 1- Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes". Biological Sciences, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. 7 (4): 180–293. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Clements, J (2007)