Aves - Gruiformes - Gruidae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1872. Notice of some new Tertiary and post-Tertiary birds. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 4(19-24):256-262

Belongs to Aletornis according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Marsh 1872, Shufeldt 1915 and Wetmore 1940

Sister taxa: Aletornis gracilis, Aletornis nobilis, Aletornis pernix, Aletornis venustus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grizzly Buttes, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Grizzly Buttes

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