Diatropornis

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Diatropornis
Temporal range: Late Eocene–Early Oligocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Cathartidae
Subfamily: Vulturinae
Genus:† Diatropornis
Milne-Edwards 1892 [1]

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. [2] [3] [4] 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. [5] Oberholser (1899) is also cited at the genus level with his renaming to Diatropornis. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1892). "Sur les oiseaux fossiles des dépôts éocènes de phosphate de chaux du Sud de la France" [Regarding the bird fossils from the Eocene calcium phosphate deposits of southern France]. Comptes Rendus du second Congrès Ornithologique international. Budapest: 60–80.
  2. ↑ 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. JSTOR   4087450.
  3. ↑ Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile. "The Avifauna of the Eocene and Oligocene Phosphorites du Quercy (France): An updated list". Strata série 1. 13: 135–149.
  4. ↑ 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. JSTOR   1366589.
  5. ↑ Gaillard, Claude (1939). "Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux fossiles" [Contribution to the study of fossilised birds]. Archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon (in French). 15 (1): 1–100. doi:10.3406/mhnly.1939.979. ISSN   0374-5465 . Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Oberholser, Harry C. (1899). "Some Untenable Names in Ornithology". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 51 (1). Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences: 202–203. ISSN   0097-3157. JSTOR   4062499 . Retrieved 23 November 2025.
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