Hesperornis

Anyway, regardless of his pomposity and dirty dealings, Marsh named such dinosaurs as Torosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Allosaurus, as well as the Cretaceous toothed birds, Hesperornis and Ichthyornis.

"You fall from grace, but fall with such grace. " greygirlbeast 2008

The remains of horned ceratopsians and duckbilled hadrosaurs lie north of the Arctic Circle; fossils of long-necked plesiosaurs and the birdlike Hesperornis have been found 1,400 miles north of the Canadian border.

New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

_Hesperornis_ and _Ichthyornis_, whose remains occur in the strata of a later date, fill in the gap between _Archæopteryx_ and the birds at the present time, for among other things they possess teeth which indicate their origin from forms like _Archæopteryx_, while in other respects they are far nearer the birds of later epochs.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

While Dr. Tayler Lewis at Union, and Drs. Hodge and Duffield at Princeton, were showing that if evolution be true the biblical accounts must be false, the indefatigable Yale professor was showing his cretaceous birds, and among them Hesperornis and Ichthyornis with teeth.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

The tooth of a Hesperornis would have given him no possible hint of the rest of the skeleton, nor its swimming feet the slightest clue to the ostrich-like sternum or skull.

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

_Hesperornis_ and _Ichthyornis_ have been discovered have afforded no certain evidence of birds, with the remarkable exception of the

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

[1] The absence of any keel on the breast-bone and some other osteological peculiarities, observed by Professor Marsh, however, suggest that _Hesperornis_ may be a modification of a less specialised group of birds than that to which these existing aquatic birds belong.

American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The same formation has yielded another bird _Ichthyornis_ (Fig. 5), which also possesses teeth; but the teeth are situated in distinct sockets, while those of _Hesperornis_ are not so lodged.

American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

In possessing true teeth, the _Hesperornis_ differs from every existing bird, and from every bird yet discovered in the tertiary formations, the tooth-like serrations of the jaws in the _Odontopteryx_ of the London clay being mere processes of the bony substance of the jaws, and not teeth in the proper sense of the word.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The same formation has yielded another bird _Ichthyornis_ (Fig. 5), which also possesses teeth; but the teeth are situated in distinct sockets, while those of _Hesperornis_ are not so lodged.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860