Baptornis
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baptornis-278-6372386
title:
Baptornis
text:
Baptornis is a genus of flightless, aquatic birds from the Late Cretaceous, some 87-80 million years ago. The fossils of Baptornis advenus, the type species, were discovered in Kansas, which at its time was mostly covered by the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow shelf sea. It is now known to have also occurred in today's Sweden, where the Turgai Strait joined the ancient North Sea; possibly, it occurred in the entire Holarctic. Othniel Charles Marsh discovered the first fossils of this bird in
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of flightless, aquatic birds
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptornis
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date modified:
2023-04-29T11:28:35Z
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13
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