Badistornis aramus Wetmore 1940 (limpkin)

Aves - Gruiformes - Aramidae

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1940. Fossil Bird Remains from Tertiary Deposits in the United States. Journal of Morphology 66(1):25-37

Belongs to Badistornis according to A. Wetmore 1956

See also Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1940

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Scenic, southwest, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of South Dakota

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Scenic, southwest

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