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‖ Hesperornis Palæont.|hɛspəˈrɔːnɪs|
[f. Gr. ἕσπερ-ος western + ὄρνις bird.]
The name of a genus of fossil birds of the western hemisphere.
1871O. C. Marsh Lett. 29 Nov. in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Art (1872) Jan. 57, I shall fully describe this unique fossil under the name Hesperornis regalis. 1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 406 The Hesperornis, described by Marsh in 1872 as a carnivorous swimming ostrich; provided with teeth; which he considers a character inherited from some reptilian ancestor. 1884G. Allen in Longm. Mag. Jan. 290 Still more reptilian in some particulars is the hesperornis. |