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    ignored in the scientific literature in favor of the order-level name Hesperornithiformes, coined one year later. In 2004, Clarke became the first to define...
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    latter included the superficially gull-like Ichthyornis and the Hesperornithiformes, which became so well adapted to hunting fish in marine environments...
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    represented by a single species; the leatherback sea turtle. The Hesperornithiformes were flightless, marine diving birds that swam like grebes. Baculites...
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    loons. More recent work looking at the morphometrics of the feet in hesperornithiformes and modern sea birds has thrown this interpretation into question...
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    hdl:1807/77762. Tim T. Tokaryk; C. R. Harington (1992). "Baptornis sp. (Aves: Hesperornithiformes) from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Saskatchewan, Canada"...
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    tibiotarsi, and they seem certainly more similar to the bones of Hesperornithiformes and (due to the smallish size) to Parahesperornis specifically. However...
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    known to occur in the Cretaceous period, the earliest being the Hesperornithiformes, like Hesperornis regalis, a flightless loon-like seabird that could...
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    or ducks, like Gansus. Some evolved as swimming hunters, like the Hesperornithiformes – a group of flightless divers resembling grebes and loons. While...
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    A Classification Uncertain Ricardoestesia gilmorei Birds such as Hesperornithiformes were present, as well as giant Pterosauria related to Quetzalcoatlus...
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  • Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the Phylogenetic Reassessment of Hesperornithiformes. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1341960...
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    between loons and the entirely unrelated extinct Cretaceous order Hesperornithiformes. In particular Enaliornis, which was apparently an ancestral and...
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  • considered to be the first freshwater and latest record of the order Hesperornithiformes. Although hesperornithiforms probably lost their flight abilities...
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    O. Averianov (2004). "New record of Hesperornis rossicus (Aves, Hesperornithiformes) in the Campanian of Saratov Province, Russia". Paleontological Research...
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    fossil birds with the presence of teeth, specifically of the orders Hesperornithiformes and Ichthyornithiformes. As such they would be regarded as transitional...
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  • ISBN 978-0-315-61682-0. Aotsuka, Keiichi; Sato, Tamaki (2016-08-01). "Hesperornithiformes (Aves: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale, Southern...
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  • remains present in the Mussentuchit Member. Possible indeterminate hesperornithiformes present in the Mussentuchit Member. Besides dinosaurs, the Cedar...
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    73–80. Retrieved 4 September 2020. Aotsuka, K. and Sato, T. (2016). Hesperornithiformes (Aves: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale, Southern...
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    1872; Plegadornis Wetmore 1962 non Brehm 1855] (Late Cretaceous) †Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer 1888 (Large, toothed, loon-like diving birds) †Chupkaornis...
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    org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141690 Martin L, Tate J. The skeleton of Baptornis advenus (Aves: Hesperornithiformes). Smith Cont Pal. 1976; 27: 35–66. v t e...
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  • Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the Phylogenetic Reassessment of Hesperornithiformes". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (8): 689–709. doi:10.1080/14772019...
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  • A.; Chaippe, L.M. (2022). Buffetaut, E.; Angst, D. (eds.). "The Hesperornithiformes: A Review of the Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of the Earliest...
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  • Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Chalk  United States A member of Hesperornithiformes. The type species is Fumicollis hoffmani. Gallinago azovica Sp. nov...
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    features. The parapophyses in its vertebrae are similar to the extinct Hesperornithiformes, which were toothed diving birds. In their phylogenetic analyses...
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  • lineage, and the first one from the Southern Hemisphere. However, the Hesperornithiformes are known to have been birds of the open epicontinental and shelf...
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  • Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the phylogenetic reassessment of Hesperornithiformes". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (8): 689–709. doi:10.1080/14772019...
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  • Retrieved 2018-04-29. Aotsuka, Keiichi; Sato, Tamaki (2016-08-01). "Hesperornithiformes (Aves: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale, Southern...
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  • 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2014-08-19. Lev A. Nessov; A. A. Yarkov (1993). "Hesperornithiformes in Russia". Russian Journal of Ornithology. 2: 37–54. Luis M. Chiappe...
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  • Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the phylogenetic reassessment of Hesperornithiformes". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (8): 689–709. doi:10.1080/14772019...
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  • doi:10.1016/j.jop.2022.08.002. Bell A, Chiappe LM (2022). "The Hesperornithiformes: A Review of the Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of the Earliest...
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  • Cretaceous Cenomanian, Ashville Formation  Canada:  Saskatchewan An Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Baptornithidae American Ornithologists’ Union,...
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