Hesperornisn.
/hɛspəˈrɔːnɪs/ Palaeontology.
The name of a genus of fossil birds of the western hemisphere.
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1871 O. C. Marsh Let. 29 Nov. in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. (1872) 103 57 I shall fully describe this unique fossil under the name Hesperornis regalis.
1881 J. Lubbock 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.
1884 G. Allen in Longman's Mag. Jan. 290 Still more reptilian in some particulars is the hesperornis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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