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coracoidal facets. The lateral processes are long and distally expanded. The 

 sternum is just as wide as it is long. There are three costal articulations. 

 The most notable character is the enormous length of the toes, the middle one 

 being longer than the tarso-metatarsus. The ungual phalanges are peculiarly 

 long, narrow and curved, instead of being comparatively short and broad, as 

 in most other Moas. 



Type of the genus Megalafiteryx kectori, Haast. 



Number of species 4. 



