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Bathornis veredus

Osteichthyes - Gruiformes - Bathornithidae

Taxonomy
Bathornis veredus was named by Wetmore (1927). Its type specimen is Denver Mus. Nat. Hist. 805, a limb element (distal portion of a tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Trigonias Quarry, which is in a Chadronian fluvial-lacustrine volcaniclastic in the Chadron Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Bathornis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Bathornis veredus Wetmore
1930Bathornis veredus Hay p. 339
1933Bathornis veredus Lambrecht p. 530
1940Bathornis veredus Wetmore p. 54
1956Bathornis veredus Wetmore p. 67
1968Bathornis veredus Cracraft p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
RankNameAuthor
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
—Terrestrornithes
—Telmatorae
superorderCharadriimorphaeHuxley 1867
orderGruiformesBonaparte 1854
suborderCariamaeFürbringer 1888
infraorderCariamides
superfamilyCariamoidea
familyBathornithidaeWetmore 1927
genusBathornis
speciesveredus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Bathornis veredus Wetmore 1927
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available