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  • 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

  • Also, what about Hesperornithes and Ichthyornis which have teeth everywhere except the pmx?

    The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

  • Gansus is, based on phylogenetic analysis of the new data, the oldest recovered member of Ornithurae the clade containing all living birds Neornithes, Ichthyornis, and Hesperornithiformes.

    A comment on the Gansus find - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • However, the Cretaceous toothed bird Ichthyornis shares even more derived features with Neornithes the clade of all living birds than does Gansus. steve s

    A comment on the Gansus find - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • He dashed past Kit Carson's world-famous hotel, past extraordinary gardens with deep streams where colored fish kept to the shadows, trying to avoid becoming a sushi lunch for some Ichthyornis or a Sordes fritcheus diving down from the ceiling.

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

  • He strolled over to a seat and hurried through his lunch while tourists snapped photos of the Ichthyornis drying its wings.

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

  • _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 latter also has such very small, almost rudimentary, wings, that it must have been chiefly a swimmer and a diver, like a Penguin; while _Ichthyornis_ has strong wings and no doubt possessed corresponding powers of flight.

    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

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