Crossword-Solution: ICHTHYORNIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ichthyornis | n. | An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebrae, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormae. |
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| TOOTHED bird (extinct) | 1 answer |
| a toothed fossil bird of America | 1 answer |
| toothed bird | 1 answer |
| BIRD (extinct) | 17 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ICHTHYORNIS (5)
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.
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.
Apart from the few fragmentary remains from the English greensand, to which I have referred, the Mesozoic rocks, older than those in which _Hesperornis_ and _Ichthyornis_ have been discovered, have afforded no certain evidence of birds, with the remarkable exception of the Solenhofen slates.
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.
Other fossil forms like _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.