Temporal range: Late Eocene - Early Miocene 37–20 Ma
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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
†B. cursor Wetmore, 1933
†B. fricki Ostrom, 1961
†B. geographicus Wetmore, 1942
†B. grallator Olson, 1985
†B. minor
†B. veredus Wetmore, 1927
and see text.
Synonyms[1][2]
Neocathartes
Palaeogyps
Palaeocrex
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]
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^"Common Greek and Latin Roots and Terms". Archived from the original on 2016-05-15. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
^Wetmore, A. (1927). "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado" (PDF). Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. 7 (2): 1–14.
^Cracraft, J. (1968). "A review of the Bathornithidae (Aves, Gruiformes), with remarks on the relationships of the suborder Cariamae". American Museum Novitates (2326): 1–46. hdl:2246/2536.
processus acrocoracoideus in the coracoid. Bathornis was a carnivorous bird. Bathornis grallator and Bathornis veredus showcase that it had a strong beak...
genus belongs in the family, Bathornis, according to a 2016 analysis by paleontologist Gerald Mayr, who noted that Bathornis was more lightly built, with...
some analysis have instead recovered them as a polyphyletic group, with Bathornis and kin being sister taxa to phorusrhacids while Paracrax is rendered...
and hyaenodonts, all co-existing with several flightless bathornithids. Bathornis, a possible close relative of Paracrax, appears to have favoured wetter...
themselves and their calves from predators, such as hyaenodonts, entelodonts, Bathornis or nimravids. Fossils were uncovered in the northern plains states. Life-sized...
"Osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the middle Eocene North American Bathornis grallator —one of the best represented, albeit least known Paleogene cariamiform...
carnivorans and died out. In North America, the bathornithids Paracrax and Bathornis were apex predators but became extinct by the Early Miocene. In South...
are Bathornithid birds, ranging from the highly varied wetland-dwelling Bathornis species to the gigantic Paracrax. Paleogene paleontological sites of North...
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