Hesperornithes is an extinct and highly specialized group of aquatic avialans closely related to the ancestors of modern birds. They inhabited both marine...
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definition: "extant birds and all other taxa, such as Ichthyornis and Hesperornithes, that are closer to extant birds than is Archaeopteryx". Later he and...
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2001: Potamornis skutchi. This was almost certainly a member of the Hesperornithes, the hefty and toothed flightless diving birds of the Mesozoic seas...
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exists for the ecology of B. advenus than for any other member of the Hesperornithes, with the possible exception of Hesperornis regalis, but still much...
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mid-Maastrichtian age, about 67 million years ago. It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Among these, it belonged...
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bizarre as Yungavolucris and Avisaurus. Though mostly small, marine Hesperornithes became relatively large and flightless, adapted to life in the open...
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archaic clades of birds, such as Enantiornithes, Ichthyornithes, and Hesperornithes, persisted to the latest Maastrichtian but became extinct during the...
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of enantiornithe and ornithurine forms. Though mostly small, marine hesperornithes became relatively large and flightless, adapted to life in the open...
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Ornithomimosauria, Oviraptorosauria, Deinonychosauria, Enantiornithes, and Hesperornithes. Only the Neornithes, otherwise known as modern birds, survived, and...
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penguins, ratites, and terror birds also filled niches left by the hesperornithes and other extinct dinosaurs. Pronounced cooling in the Oligocene resulted...
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