Gruipeda vegrandiunus Fiorillo et al. 2011 (bird)

Aves

Full reference: A. R. Fiorillo, S. T. Hasiotis, Y. Kobayashi, B. H. Breithaupt, and P. J. McCarthy. 2011. Bird tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Cantwell Formation of Denali National Park, Alaska, USA: a new perspective on ancient northern polar vertebrate biodiversity. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(1):33-49

Belongs to Gruipeda according to L. G. Buckley et al. 2016

See also Fiorillo et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Gruipeda dominguensis, Gruipeda maxima

Type specimen: DMNH 18352, a footprint. Its type locality is Cabin Peak tracksite, Denali NP, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Cantwell Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cabin Peak tracksite, Denali NP

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