Reptilia - Hesperornithiformes - Brodavidae

Alternative combination: Baptornis varneri

Full reference: J. E. Martin and A. Cordes-Person. 2007. A new species of the diving bird Baptornis (Ornithurae, Hesperonithiformes) from the lower Pierre Shale Group (Upper Cretaceous) of southwestern South Dakota. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:227-237

Belongs to Brodavis according to A. Bell and L. M. Chiappe 2016

See also Martin and Cordes-Person 2007, O'Connor et al. 2014, O'Connor and Zelenkov 2013 and Wang et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Brodavis americanus, Brodavis baileyi, Brodavis mongoliensis

Type specimen: SDSM 68430, a partial skeleton (partial postcranial skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, and an almost complete right hindlimb). Its type locality is SDSM locality V9131, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in the Pierre Shale Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at SDSM locality V9131

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