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    million years ago). It is the only species of Hesperornis for which a nearly complete skull is known. Hesperornis crassipes was named in 1876 by Marsh, who...
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    freshwater habitats in the Northern Hemisphere, and include genera such as Hesperornis, Parahesperornis, Baptornis, Enaliornis, and Potamornis, all strong-swimming...
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    is a natural group which includes the common ancestor of Ichthyornis, Hesperornis, and all modern birds as well as all other descendants of that common...
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    and far between, at least compared with its contemporary relatives in Hesperornis. Remains are known from central North America, namely the former shallows...
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    In addition to non-crown group primitive birds like Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis and Confuciusornis, therefore, pan-group birds would include all dinosaurs...
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  • birds. Using the then newly discovered fossils of Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis, Thomas Henry Huxley pronounced that they had evolved from dinosaurs...
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    radiolarians. The seaway was home to early birds, including the flightless Hesperornis that had stout legs for swimming through water and tiny wings used for...
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    noted the rare and unique quality of these toothed birds (including Hesperornis, which was found to also have teeth by 1877), and the irony of their...
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    Max (1 January 1935). "Colymbus, Hesperornis, Podiceps: ein Vergleich ihrer hinteren Extremität" [Colymbus, Hesperornis, Podiceps: a comparison of their...
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  • Domyoji Death Note — Raye Penber, Anthony Rester Dinosaur Train — Jess the Hesperornis, Reggie the Raptorex Dragon Drive — Hikaru Himuro Dynasty Warriors: Gundam...
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  • pleurodonts). It is known from several aquatic amniotes: ichthyosaurs, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis, juvenile caimans, some cetaceans and even some ctenochasmatoid...
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    the late Cretaceous. Strong-swimming and toothed predatory waterbird Hesperornis roamed late Cretacean oceans. The ammonite Discoscaphites iris, Owl Creek...
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    Cretaceous period, the earliest being the Hesperornithiformes, like Hesperornis regalis, a flightless loon-like seabird that could dive in a fashion...
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    any other member of the Hesperornithes, with the possible exception of Hesperornis regalis, but still much is left to conjecture. The loon-sized bird was...
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  • related to dinosaurs. Though some dinosaurs were or are semiaquatic, (Hesperornis, Spinosaurus, auks, penguins), none are known to have been fully marine...
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  • publication, Thomas Henry Huxley used the fossils of Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis to argue that the birds are descendants of the dinosaurs. Thus, a group...
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  • Waiter Mark Acheson as Marvin Mosasaurus Michael Adamthwaite as Jess Hesperornis, Reggie Raptorex Ashleigh Ball as Arnie Argentinosaurus, Crystal Cryolophosaurus...
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    had risen from the dinosaurs. He based this chiefly on the fossils of Hesperornis and Archaeopteryx, that were starting to become known at the time. In...
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  • Phosphorosaurus hunts lanternfish under the ocean's moonlit surface. Hesperornis hunt for fish until they themselves are hunted by Xiphactinus. Nostoceras...
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  • Hesperornis...
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    (Aves)". Steenstrupia. 16: 21–36. Stolpe, M. (January 1935). "Colymbus, Hesperornis, Podiceps:, ein Vergleich ihrer hinteren Extremität". J. Ornithol. (in...
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    Baptornis Brodavis Chupkaornis Enaliornis Judinornis Pasquiaornis Potamornis Hesperornithidae Asiahesperornis Canadaga Fumicollis Hesperornis Parahesperornis...
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    have been found in the Smoky Hill Chalk formation of western Kansas (Hesperornis zone, dated to 83.5 million years ago), time-equivalent beds of the Mooreville...
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    Baptornis Brodavis Chupkaornis Enaliornis Judinornis Pasquiaornis Potamornis Hesperornithidae Asiahesperornis Canadaga Fumicollis Hesperornis Parahesperornis...
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    Diplodocus (1878) Diracodon (1881) Dryosaurus (1894) Dryptosaurus (1877) Hesperornis (1872) Ichthyornis (1873) Labrosaurus (1896) Laosaurus (1878) Lestornis...
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    & Chiappe 2015 †Parahesperornis alexi Martin 1980 (Late Cretaceous) †Hesperornis Marsh 1872 [Coniornis Marsh 1893; Lestornis Marsh 1876; Hargeria Lucas...
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    toothless beak, but closer and later relatives of modern birds such as Hesperornis and Ichthyornis were toothed, indicating that the loss of teeth occurred...
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    dinosaurs and other fossil animals, including Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and Hesperornis. At the request of Marsh and to house some of his discoveries, Peabody...
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    had made some remarkable discoveries: the huge Cretaceous aquatic bird Hesperornis, and the dinosaur footprints along the Connecticut River were worth the...
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    Baptornis Brodavis Chupkaornis Enaliornis Judinornis Pasquiaornis Potamornis Hesperornithidae Asiahesperornis Canadaga Fumicollis Hesperornis Parahesperornis...
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