Biology:Diatropornis
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Diatropornis is an extinct genus of vultures dated to the period from late Eocene to early Oligocene. Diatropornis ellioti has a known location of Phosphorites du Quercy and Boussac, in France.[1][2][3] Milne-Edwards described the bird, at that stage known as Tapinopus ellioti, as having mainly a terrestrial rather than aerial existence, and had a diet of insects, small mammals, vertebrates, snakes and amphibians.[4] Oberholser (1899) is also cited at the genus level with his renaming to Diatropornis.[5]
References
- ↑ Emslie, Steven D. (1988-07-01). "An Early Condor-Like Vulture from North America". The Auk 105 (3): 529–535. doi:10.1093/auk/105.3.529. ISSN 0004-8038. https://academic.oup.com/auk/article-abstract/105/3/529/5193154.
- ↑ Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile. "The Avifauna of the Eocene and Oligocene Phosphorites du Quercy (France): An updated list". Strata série 1 13: 135–149.
- ↑ Cracraft, Joel; Rich, Pat Vickers (1972). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Cathartidae in the Old World Tertiary". The Condor 74 (3): 272–283. doi:10.2307/1366589. ISSN 0010-5422. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1366589.
- ↑ Gaillard, Claude (1939). "Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux fossiles" (in fr). Archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon 15 (1): 1–100. doi:10.3406/mhnly.1939.979. ISSN 0374-5465. https://www.persee.fr/doc/mhnly_0374-5465_1939_num_15_1_979. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
- ↑ Oberholser, Harry C. (1899). "Some Untenable Names in Ornithology". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences) 51 (1): 202–203. ISSN 0097-3157. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4062499. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
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