Enaliornis segdwicki Seeley 1869 (bird)

Aves - Hesperornithiformes

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Enaliornis according to P. Brodkorb 1963

See also Brodkorb 1971, Elzanowski and Galton 1991, Lambrecht 1933, Padian 2004, Seeley 1869, Van Den Broeck 1900 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Enaliornis barretti, Enaliornis sedgwicki, Enaliornis seeleyi

Type specimen: SMC B55314, a limb element (proximal end of a right tibiotarsus). Its type locality is Coldham Common, which is in an Albian marine carbonate in the Gault Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Enaliornis segdwicki in the database

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.