Dinornis

They set up the pelvis and leg bones and then, with plaster or some substance, and by working in proportion, they reconstructed the Dinornis, which is about the shape of the ostrich or the extinct moa of New Zealand, only larger.

The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker

The remnants of these vanished birds in the form of subfossils ancient bones, not yet petrified and fossils suggest wide variation on the basic model: enormously tall moas of the genus Dinornis, smaller but thick-legged moas of the genus Pachyornis, medium-sized moas of the genus Bury apteryx, pygmy moas of the genus Anomalopteryx.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

And besides Dinornis maximus, there were at least twelve other species of New Zealand moas.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The remnants of these vanished birds in the form of subfossils ancient bones, not yet petrified and fossils suggest wide variation on the basic model: enormously tall moas of the genus Dinornis, smaller but thick-legged moas of the genus Pachyornis, medium-sized moas of the genus Bury apteryx, pygmy moas of the genus Anomalopteryx.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

New Zealand had the moa Dinornis maximus, a giant on the same scale as Aepyornis maximus, though skinnier—more like a giraffe than like an elephant.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

New Zealand had the moa Dinornis maximus, a giant on the same scale as Aepyornis maximus, though skinnier—more like a giraffe than like an elephant.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

And besides Dinornis maximus, there were at least twelve other species of New Zealand moas.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Take, for instance, the Dinornis -- and before we go any farther let me see if you can give me a good English name for the creature.

The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker

But the one which to my mind is the real counterpart of the opmahera is the Dinornis gigantea, whose remains are also found in New Zealand.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

No savages could have extirpated mammalia, besides we should have found them fossil in the same places with all those species of extinct Dinornis which have come to light.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916