Asiahesperornis

Taxobox
name = "Asiahesperornis"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Hesperornithes
ordo = Hesperornithiformes?
familia = Hesperornithidae?
familia_authority =
genus = "Asiahesperornis"
genus_authority =
species = "A. bazhanovi"
binomial = "Asiahesperornis bazhanovi"
binomial_authority =

"Asiahesperornis" is a prehistoric flightless bird genus from the Late Cretaceous. The single known species is "Asiahesperornis bazhanovi". It lived in what today is Kazakhstan, at its time the shores of the shallow Turgai Sea.

It was a member of the Hesperornithes, flightless toothed seabirds of the Cretaceous. Its exact relationships are not completely resolved, but it probably belongs into the Hesperornithidae just like "Hesperornis", well-known from the Western Interior Seaway that covered most of the US Midwest in the Mesozoic. [Mortimer (2004)]

Footnotes

References

* (2004): The Theropod Database: [http://home.comcast.net/~eoraptor/Phylogeny%20of%20Taxa.html Phylogeny of taxa] . Retrieved 2008-AUG-14.