Reptilia - Hesperornithiformes - Hesperornithidae
Full reference: L. A. Nessov and B. V. Prizemlin. 1991. Krupnye evolyutsionno prodvinutye neletatsshchie morskie ptitsy otryada gesperornisoobraznykh pozdnego Senona Turgayskogo proliva: pervye nakhodki gruppy v SSSR [A large advanced flightless marine bird of the order Hesperornithiformes from the late Senonian of Turgai Strait: the first discovery of the group in the USSR]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 239:85-107
Belongs to Asiahesperornis according to E. N. Kurochkin 2000
See also Dyke et al. 2006 and Nessov and Prizemlin 1991
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IZASK 5/287/86a, a set of limb elements. Its type locality is Priozernyi Quarry, Kushmurun, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Zhuravlevskaya Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Priozernyi Quarry, Kushmurun
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.