Diatropornis
Extinct vulture genus
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Diatropornis is an extinct genus of vultures dated to the period from late Eocene to early Oligocene. Diatropornis ellioti has a known location of Phosphorites du Quercy and Boussac, in France.[2][3][4] Milne-Edwards described the bird, at that stage known as Tapinopus ellioti, as having mainly a terrestrial rather than aerial existence, and had a diet of insects, small mammals, vertebrates, snakes and amphibians.[5] Oberholser (1899) is also cited at the genus level with his renaming to Diatropornis.[6]
| Diatropornis Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Cathartidae |
| Subfamily: | Vulturinae |
| Genus: | †Diatropornis Milne-Edwards 1892[1] |
