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Ossifraga gigantea
Fulmar Ful"mar (f[u^]lm[aum]r), n. [Icel. f[=u]lm[=a]r. See foul, and Man a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariid[ae], allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

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- However, recent work indicates that Pachyaena is paraphyletic, with P. ossifraga being closer to Synoplotherium, Harpagolestes and Mesonyx than to P. gigantea...
- though the Oxford English Dictionary notes a connection with the Latin ossifraga or "bone breaker" of Pliny the Elder. However, this term referred to the...
- the Alites were the eagle, the vulture, the avis sanqualis, also called ossifraga, and the immussulus or immusculus. Some birds like the Picus Martius,...
- what is now the southern giant petrel. It replaced the previous genus Ossifraga which was found to have been earlier applied to a different group of birds...
- dolichognathus M. robustus Genus Pachyaena P. gigantea P. intermedia P. ossifraga P. gracilis Genus Sinonyx S. jiashanensis Genus Synoplotherium S. vorax...
- species of the Early Eocene genus, Pachyaena, such as P. gigantea and P. ossifraga, which, too, grew to the size of bears. Evidence of ****ual dimorphism...
- Leptopus, Lophobios, Lortia, Lyciopsis, Medusea, Monadenium, Nisomenes, Ossifraga, Peccana, Pedilanthus, Petalandra, Pleuradena, Poinsettia, Pythius, Sclerocyathium...
- USGS locality D-1640. Maxillary fragments (USGS 7185). A mesonychid. P. ossifraga Locality SC-348. Trigonid of a right molar. A mesonychid. P. sp. Postcranial...
- Acreodi Dissacus cf. praenuntius Hapalodectes leptognathus Pachyaena ossifraga Wyolestes dioctes Dissacus sp. ?Mesonyx sp. Mesonychidae indet. Carnivora...