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Brontornis burmeisteri

Reptilia - Theropoda

Taxonomy
Brontornis burmeisteri was named by Moreno and Mercerat (1891). Its type specimen is Museo de La Plata, a set of limb elements (femur, tibia, tarsometatarsus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lago Argentino, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Argentina.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1891Brontornis burmeisteri Moreno and Mercerat p. 20 figs. Plate III, Fig. 1-4, Plate V, Fig. 2
1891Rostrornis floweri Moreno and Mercerat p. 20 figs. Plate IV, 1; Plate V Fig. 1, 3, 4, 5; Plate VI; Plate VII Fig. 1-3, Plate IX, Fig 1
1894Brontornis platyonyx Ameghino
1894Liornis floweri Ameghino
1894Brontornis platyonyx Ameghino p. 567
1933Brontornis burmeisteri Lambrecht p. 511
1933Brontornis platyonyx Lambrecht p. 512
1933Liornis floweri Lambrecht p. 512
1933Rostrornis floweri Lambrecht p. 512
2003Brontornis burmeisteri Alvarenga and Holfing p. 65
2005Brontornis burmeisteri Gould and Quitmyer p. 205 figs. Table 2
2007Brontornis burmeisteri Bertelli et al. p. 415 figs. Table 2
2023Brontornis burmeisteri Tambussi et al. p. 286

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
orderTheropoda
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—PangalloanseraeGauthier and de Queiroz 2001
—GalloanseraeSibley and Ahlquist 1990
superorderGalloanserimorphae
orderAnseriformesWagler 1831
genusBrontornis
speciesburmeisteri

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.

†Brontornis burmeisteri Moreno and Mercerat 1891
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Invalid names: Brontornis platyonyx Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Liornis floweri Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Rostrornis floweri Moreno and Mercerat 1891 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volanto
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 19:27:52
Modified: 2009-01-03 21:27:52
Source: o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Sedinger 1997

Age range: base of the Santacrucian to the top of the Middle Miocene or 17.50000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Argentina Rostrornis floweri (66154)
Santacrucian17.5 - 16.3Argentina (Santa Cruz) Brontornis burmeisteri (27313 176565 176576 176590 176597) Brontornis burmeisteri, Liornis floweri (176564)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Argentina (Santa Cruz) Brontornis burmeisteri (type locality: 88834)