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Summary
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English:
Hesperornis regalis
, a species of ancient flightless bird, as drawn by
Othniel Marsh
. This reconstruction is obsolete; the bird was not able to assume such a posture without disjointing its legs.
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| Date | circa 1880 |
| Source | Online, [1] ; originally from Marsh's 1880-1881 printing Odontornithes, a Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America. (Government Printing Office, Washington DC). Also reprinted in The Legacy of the Mastodon by Keith Stewart Thomson (Yale University Press/2008). |
| Author | Othniel Charles Marsh (1831 – 1899) |
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