Enaliornis sedgwicki Seeley 1869 (bird)

Aves - Hesperornithiformes

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Enaliornis according to A. Elzanowski and P. M. Galton 1991

Sister taxa: Enaliornis barretti, Enaliornis seeleyi, Enaliornis segdwicki

Type specimen: SMC B55314, a limb element (proximal end of a right tibiotarsus). Its type locality is Coldham Common, which is in an Albian marine carbonate in the Gault Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Coldham Common

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