†Botauroides parvus Shufeldt 1915 (heron)
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Aves - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Full reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110
Belongs to Botauroides according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Feduccia and Martin 1976, Houde and Olson 1992, Lambrecht 1933, Olson 1985, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: YPM 1030, a set of limb elements. Its type locality is Spanish John's Meadow, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution: found only at Spanish John's Meadow
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