Pasquiaornis

Pasquia bird

• Pasquia · Place name (Pasquia Hills, Canada) · the Pasquia Hills, the type locality
• ornis · Greek · bird

The name combines "Pasquia", for the Pasquia Hills region of Canada where the fossils were found, with the Greek word "ornis", meaning bird. It literally means "Pasquia bird" and refers to the place where the bones were discovered.

Named by

Tokaryk, Cumbaa and Storer

Year named

1997

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Cenomanian

Found in

Ashville Formation, Pasquia Hills area, Saskatchewan/Manitoba, Canada

A flightless, diving, toothed marine bird (a hesperornithiform). Birds are avian dinosaurs, but this is a bird rather than a non-avian dinosaur. Two species are recognised, P. tankei and P. hardiei. The exact location details are given from memory and may be imprecise.