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Bathornithidae is an
extinct family of
birds from the
Eocene to
Miocene of
North America. Part of Cariamiformes, they are
related to the
still extant seriemas...
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genus Paracrax,
first interpreted as a cracid, then soon
after as a
bathornithid Cariamiformes.
Meleagris sp. (Early
Pliocene of Bone Valley, U.S.) Meleagris...
- had a
wider geographical range in the Paleogene. The
closely related bathornithids occupied a
similar ecological niche in
North America across the Eocene...
- this to a
greater extreme, the
terror birds (and
their relatives the
bathornithids), eogruids, geranoidids, gastornithiforms, and
dromornithids (all extinct)...
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larger terrestrial theropods (in the form of Gastornis, eogruiids,
bathornithids, ratites, geranoidids, mihirungs, and "terror birds"). It is
often stated...
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posteriorly referred to
Cracidae by
Pierce Brodkorb,
before its
identity as a
bathornithid came to light.
Material previously identified as a cormorant,...
- to be a
bathornithid,
though a
combination of the
relative incompleteness of the
material alongside some
differences from
other bathornithids have raised...
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including the skull,
bearing a
proportionally large,
hooked beak. The
bathornithid second toe is
currently unknown, but the
first toe is
highly reduced...
- America.
Several other related groups, such as the
idiornithids and
bathornithids were part of
Palaeogene faunas in
North America and
Europe and possibly...
- "Phalacrocorax" (or "Oligocorax")
mediterraneus is now
considered to
belong to the
bathornithid Paracrax antiqua. "P."
subvolans was
actually a
darter (Anhinga). Birds...
