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Hesperornis regalis
Taxonomy
Hesperornis regalis was named by Marsh (1872). Its type specimen is YPM 1200, a partial skeleton (nearly complete entire posterior limbs, parts of the pelvis, several cervical and caudal vertebrae, and numerous ribs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Goblin Hollow, which is in a Santonian marine shale in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Hesperornis.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1872 | Hesperornis regalis Marsh pp. 360-363 |
1880 | Hesperornis regalis Marsh p. 5 |
1882 | Hesperornis regalis Quenstedt p. 135 |
1890 | Hesperornis regalis Zittel p. 828 |
1893 | Hesperornis regalis Marsh p. 82 |
1897 | Hesperornis regalis Marsh p. 527 |
1900 | Hesperornis regalis Van Den Broeck p. 76 |
1902 | Hesperornis regalis Hay p. 521 |
1903 | Hesperornis regalis Lucas p. 545 |
1915 | Hesperornis regalis Shufeldt p. 21 |
1930 | Hesperornis regalis Hay p. 278 |
1934 | Hesperornis regalis Swinton p. 3 |
1940 | Hesperornis regalis Wetmore p. 3 |
1956 | Hesperornis regalis Wetmore p. 4 |
1971 | Hesperornis regalis Brodkorb p. 39 |
1984 | Hesperornis regalis Martin p. 142 |
1991 | Hesperornis regalis Chatterjee p. 328 |
2000 | Hesperornis regalis Kurochkin p. 544 |
2002 | Hesperornis regalis Chiappe p. 452 |
2013 | Hesperornis regalis O'Connor and Zelenkov |
2013 | Hesperornis regalis Zhou et al. |
2016 | Hesperornis regalis Aotsuka and Sato |
2016 | Hesperornis regalis Bell and Chiappe |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Hesperornis regalis Marsh 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Padian 1985, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.10000 Ma
Collections (19 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Santonian | USA (Kansas) | Hesperornis regalis (type locality: 85284) | |
Campanian | Canada (Manitoba) | Hesperornis regalis (36710 36746) | |
Early/Lower Campanian | Canada (Northwest Territories) | Hesperornis regalis (106330 106331 106332 106334 106341) | |
Early/Lower Campanian | Canada (Manitoba) | Hesperornis regalis (193919 193920 193921 193922 193923 193924 193925 193926 193927) | |
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian | USA (South Dakota) | Hesperornis regalis (77316) | |
Middle Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Hesperornis regalis (36379) |