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Specimen #: B.00.03.00
Collection: Aves > Bird, Hesperornis
Status: stored
Images
Description
Left Femur
Measurements (4.5 x 2.5 x 9.5 cm)
Rough measurements made with a ruler. Width was measured between the widest points at the distal end.
Details
| Common Name: | Bird, Hesperornis |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Hesperornithiformes |
| Family: | Hesperornithidae |
| Genus: | Hesperornis |
| Species: | regalis |
| Geo Period: | Assumed Cretaceous |
| Epoch: | Assumed Campanian |
| Formation: | Assumed Pierre Shale |
| Member: | Assumed Pembina |
| Current Location: | Manitoba Escarpment |
| Credit: | Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls Henery Isaak Don Bell |
Current Condition
Fossil is infused with gypsum and jarosite.