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Baptornis

Reptilia - Hesperornithiformes - Baptornithidae

Taxonomy

Baptornis was named by Marsh (1877) [Sepkoski's age data: K Sant K Maes Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It is not extant. Its type is Baptornis advenus.

It was assigned to Aves by Marsh (1877); to Odontolcae by Zittel (1890); to Apatornithidae by Shufeldt (1915); to Hesperornithidae by Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); to Enaliornithidae by Lambrecht (1933); to Hesperornithiformes by Sepkoski (2002) and Padian (2004); to Ornithuromorpha by O'Connor and Zelenkov (2013), Wang et al. (2014) and O'Connor et al. (2014); to Ornithurae by Norell and Clarke (2001), Kurochkin et al. (2013) and Wang and Liu (2015); and to Baptornithidae by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1960), Brodkorb (1971), Martin and Tate (1976), Carroll (1988), Tokaryk (1992), Tokaryk et al. (1997), Kurochkin (2000), Martin and Cordes-Person (2007) and Bell and Chiappe (2016).

Species

B. advenus (type species), Parascaniornis stensioei

Synonyms

Parascaniornis stensioei was named by Lambrecht (1933). Its type specimen is MGUH 1908.214, a set of vertebrae (Dorsal vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ivö Klack (Lund University collection), which is in a Campanian carbonate limestone in Sweden. It is the type species of Parascaniornis.

It was corrected as Parascaniornis stensioi by Brodkorb (1952); it was misspelled as Parascaniornis stensioi by Brodkorb (1971); it was considered a nomen dubium by Rees and Lindgren (2005).
Parascaniornis was named by Lambrecht (1933). Its type is Parascaniornis stensioei.

It was synonymized subjectively with Baptornis by Rees and Lindgren (2005).

It was assigned to Scaniornithidae by Lambrecht (1933), Howard (1955) and Wetmore (1960); to Torotigidae by Brodkorb (1971); and to Hesperornithiformes by Nessov and Prizemlin (1991).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1877	Baptornis Marsh
1890	Baptornis Zittel p. 828
1902	Baptornis Hay p. 522
1915	Baptornis Shufeldt p. 8
1930	Baptornis Hay p. 279
1933	Parascaniornis stensioei Lambrecht
1933	Baptornis Lambrecht p. 258
1933	Parascaniornis Lambrecht p. 335
1933	Parascaniornis stensioei Lambrecht p. 335 figs. Fig. 116
1940	Baptornis Wetmore p. 4
1952	Parascaniornis stensioi Brodkorb p. 174
1955	Parascaniornis Howard p. 24
1956	Baptornis Wetmore p. 5
1960	Baptornis Wetmore p. 23
1960	Parascaniornis Wetmore p. 25
1971	Parascaniornis Brodkorb p. 37
1971	Baptornis Brodkorb p. 39
1971	Parascaniornis stensioi Brodkorb p. 39
1976	Baptornis Martin and Tate, Jr. p. 37
1988	Baptornis Carroll
1991	Parascaniornis Nessov and Prizemlin p. 104
1992	Baptornis Tokaryk p. 1010
1997	Baptornis Tokaryk et al. p. 172
2000	Baptornis Kurochkin p. 546
2001	Baptornis Norell and Clarke p. 183
2002	Baptornis Sepkoski
2004	Baptornis Padian p. 213
2007	Baptornis Martin and Cordes-Person p. 229
2013	Baptornis Kurochkin et al.
2013	Baptornis O'Connor and Zelenkov
2014	Baptornis O'Connor et al.
2014	Baptornis Wang et al.
2015	Baptornis Wang and Liu
2016	Baptornis Bell and Chiappe

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
—	Pygostylia	Chiappe 2002
—	Ornithothoraces
—	Ornithuromorpha	Chiappe et al. 1999
subclass	Ornithurae
order	Hesperornithiformes	Fürbringer 1888
family	Baptornithidae	American Ornithologists' Union 1910
genus	Baptornis	Marsh 1877

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.

G. †Baptornis Marsh 1877

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†Baptornis advenus Marsh 1877

Invalid names: Parascaniornis Lambrecht 1933 [synonym], Parascaniornis stensioei Lambrecht 1933 [nomen dubium]

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:

marineo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

aquaticg

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-04 11:40:47

Modified:

2009-01-04 13:40:47

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015, Padian 1985

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 89.80000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Coniacian	89.8 - 86.3	USA (Kansas)	B. advenus (85282)
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	USA (Kansas)	B. advenus (85278)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Sweden	B. sp., Parascaniornis stensioei (102883)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Canada (Alberta)	B. sp. (34302 34310 34311 34313)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Canada (Saskatchewan)	B. sp. (75030 229975)