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Diatryma
Taxonomy
Diatryma was named by Cope (1876). It is not extant. Its type is Diatryma gigantea. It is the type genus of Diatrymidae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Gastornis by Mlikovsky (2002).
It was assigned to Gastornithidae by Hay (1902); to Stereornithes by Lucas (1903); to Diatrymatidae by Hay (1930); and to Diatrymidae by Matthew and Granger (1917), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1960) and Carroll (1988).
It was synonymized subjectively with Gastornis by Mlikovsky (2002).
It was assigned to Gastornithidae by Hay (1902); to Stereornithes by Lucas (1903); to Diatrymatidae by Hay (1930); and to Diatrymidae by Matthew and Granger (1917), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1960) and Carroll (1988).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1876 | Diatryma Cope p. 11 |
1902 | Diatryma Hay p. 522 |
1903 | Diatryma Lucas p. 556 |
1917 | Diatryma Matthew and Granger p. 321 |
1928 | Omorhamphus Sinclair p. 52 |
1930 | Diatryma Hay p. 283 |
1930 | Omorhamphus Hay p. 283 |
1933 | Diatryma Lambrecht p. 567 |
1933 | Omorhamphus Lambrecht p. 570 |
1940 | Diatryma Wetmore p. 55 |
1940 | Omorhamphus Wetmore p. 55 |
1960 | Diatryma Wetmore p. 27 |
1988 | Diatryma Carroll |
1988 | Omorhamphus Carroll |
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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. †Diatryma Cope 1876
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†Diatryma ajax Shufeldt 1913
†Diatryma gigantea Cope 1876
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Invalid names: Diatryma steini Matthew and Granger 1917 [synonym], Omorhamphus storchii Sinclair 1928 [synonym]
†Diatryma sarasini Schaub 1929
Invalid names: Omorhamphus Sinclair 1928 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available