Bathornis

Smaller than a Microraptor!

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Bathornis Temporal range: Late Eocene-Early Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cariamiformes
Family:	† Bathornithidae
Genus:	† Bathornis Wetmore, 1927
Species:	† B. celeripes † B. grallator † B. fricki † B. geographicus † B. grallator † B. minor † B. veredus
Type species
† Bathornis veredus Wetmore, 1927

Bathornis ("tall bird") is a genus of flightless bird related to modern day seriemas, that lived in North America about 37–20 million years ago. Like the closely related phorusrhacids, it was a flightless predator, occupying predatory niches in environments classically considered to be dominated by mammals. It was a highly diverse and successful genus, spanning a large number of species that occurred from the Priabonian Eocene to the Burdigalian Miocene epochs.