Bathornis
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Bathornis ("tall bird"[3][4]) is an extinct lineage of birds related to modern day seriemas, that lived in North America about 37–20 million years ago. Like the closely related and also extinct phorusrhacids, it was a flightless predator, occupying predatory niches in environments classically considered to be dominated by mammals. It was a highly diverse and successful genus, spanning a large number of species that occurred from the Priabonian Eocene to the Burdigalian Miocene epochs.[5]
Bathornis | |
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Hypothetic life restoration of Bathornis grallator, based on known material and modern seriemas. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes |
Family: | †Bathornithidae |
Genus: | †Bathornis Wetmore, 1927 |
Type species | |
†Bathornis veredus Wetmore, 1927 | |
Species | |
†B. celeripes Wetmore, 1933 | |
Synonyms[1][2] | |
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