Name - Ichthyornis

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:291883 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Ichthyornis Marsh 1872

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• The craniofacial air sac system of Mesozoic birds (Aves).
• Early Late Cretaceous birds from Saskatchewan, Canada: the oldest diverse avifauna known from North America.
• Ichthyornis sp. (Aves: Ichthyornithiformes) from the Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of western Kansas.
• A new specimen of the Late Cretaceous bird, cf. Ichthyornis sp., from the Cenomanian of central Kansas, with comments on the size distribution of Ichthyornis in North America.
• Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind.

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