-
Enaliornithidae and Brodavidae,
might have been able to fly, the
larger hesperornithids like
Hesperornis and
Baptornis had only
vestigial wings. As in the...
-
groups of
flightless birds include the
Cretaceous patagopterygiformes,
hesperornithids, the
Cenozoic phorusrhacids ("terror birds") and
related bathornithids...
-
teeth and were
covered in a beak. The beak of Ichthyornis, like the
hesperornithids, was
compound and made up of
several distinct plates,
similar to the...
- Plioplatecarpus. Some
Niobraran genera such as Tylosaurus, Cretoxyrhina,
hesperornithids, and
plesiosaurs including elasmosaurs such as
Terminonatator and polycotylids...
- in
cladistic analysis. Consequently, it
might be
considered a
fossil hesperornithid with a
different feeding specialization.
Though it was
heavily built...
- Cambridge, England. Due to its lack of certain[clarification needed]
hesperornithid apomorphies, they were much more "conventional"
birds and were initially...
-
Sharon Springs Member. A
hesperornithid. H.
chowi Manitoba &
South Dakota Pembina, Millwood, &
Sharon Springs Members. A
hesperornithid. H.
lumgairi Manitoba...
-
Palaeotringa and
Laornis belonging to a
currently unknown group of birds.
Hesperornithid fossils have also been
unearthed in Arkansas. Some
birds found in Canada...
- sca****-coracoid
connection they
possess compared to
modern birds and the
hesperornithids that were
their contemporaries:
Enanti "opposite",
ornis is "bird"...
-
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 19: 1–110. Martin, L.D. (1984). "A new
hesperornithid and the
relationships of the
Mesozoic birds".
Transactions of the Kansas...
