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Apatornis

fossil bird genus
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  • zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
    bird
    / Fossil birds

    that included Ichthyornis and Apatornis. Although not related to gulls, these birds resembled them superficially and may well have been their ecological counterparts. It was long believed that Ichthyornis had teeth, like Hesperornis, but it is now thought that the toothed jaws formerly thought to belong to Ichthyornis were…

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    that included Ichthyornis and Apatornis. Although not related to gulls, these birds resembled them superficially and may well have been their ecological counterparts. It was long believed that Ichthyornis had teeth, like Hesperornis, but it is now thought that the toothed jaws formerly thought to belong to Ichthyornis were…

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