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...

†Talantatos †Lavocatavis? †Ameghinornithidae Strigogyps †Bathornithidae Bathornis Eutreptornis? Paracrax? †Eleutherornithidae Eleutherornis †Idiornithidae...

"Osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the middle Eocene North American Bathornis grallator—one of the best represented, albeit least known Paleogene cariamiform...

†Talantatos †Lavocatavis? †Ameghinornithidae Strigogyps †Bathornithidae Bathornis Eutreptornis? Paracrax? †Eleutherornithidae Eleutherornis †Idiornithidae...

†Talantatos †Lavocatavis? †Ameghinornithidae Strigogyps †Bathornithidae Bathornis Eutreptornis? Paracrax? †Eleutherornithidae Eleutherornis †Idiornithidae...

carnivorans and died out. In North America, the bathornithids Paracrax and Bathornis were apex predators but became extinct by the Early Miocene. In South...