Aves - Alexornithiformes - Alexornithidae
Full reference: P. Brodkorb. 1976. Discovery of a Cretaceous bird, apparently ancestral to the orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes (Aves: Carinatae). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27:67-73
Belongs to Alexornis according to P. Brodkorb 1976
See also Chiappe 1991, Chiappe and Calvo 1994, Morris 1982 and Rivera-Sylva and Carpenter 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: LACM 33213, a limb element (distal 10 mm of right humerus). Its type locality is southwest of El Rosario, which is in a Santonian terrestrial horizon in the La Bocana Roja Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at southwest of El Rosario
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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