Coniornis
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| Coniornis Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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| Coniornis altus |
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Hesperornis montana |
Coniornis is a prehistoric flightless bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species Coniornis altus lived about 78 million years ago[verification needed]. Sometimes, this genus is merged into Hesperornis but this does not appear to be correct[1]
It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Among these, it belonged to the Hesperornithidae just like its relative Hesperornis.[1]
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- Mortimer, Michael (2004): The Theropod Database: Phylogeny of taxa. Retrieved 2007-OCT-29.
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