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likely led a similar lifestyle to modern flamingos, wading through water and filtering small organisms using a specially adapted bill. Subsequently, it is inferred that the Rincón locality where the material has been found represents what used to be a shallow lagoon or mudflat during the
Pliocene, a
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fragments. Some of the material is thought to have belonged to juvenile birds not yet capable of flight. All the material initially assigned to the species was uncovered from an area known as Arroyo de los Ponos, also known as CIT locality 289. Additional material would later be collected from the
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Chilean flamingos and greater flamingos. Still, the possibility of a second flamingo from the locality is not discarded entirely.
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