Aves - Gruiformes - Gruidae
Alternative combinations: Aletornis marshi, Protogrus marshi
Full reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110
Belongs to Grus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Lambrecht 1933, Olson 1977, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Grus americana, Grus conferta, Grus grus, Grus japonensis, Grus latipes, Grus melitensis, Grus mexicanus, Grus minor, Grus moldavica, Grus monacha, Grus nannodes, Grus nigricollis, Grus pentellici, Grus primigenia, Grus proavus, Grus turfa
Type specimen: YPM 888, a limb element. Its type locality is Henry's Fork, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Henry's Fork
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