Stenornis

Stenornis
Temporal range: Oligocene
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Plotopteridae
Genus: Stenornis
Ohashi & Hasegawa, 2020
Type species
Stenornis kanmonensis
Ohashi & Hasegawa, 2020

Stenornis is an extinct genus of Plotopteridae, a family of large-sized, flightless seabirds native from the North Pacific during the Paleogene and the earliest Neogene. The remains of Stenornis have been found in Oligocene rocks of the Jinnobaru Formation on Hikoshima and the Ashiya Group on Ainoshima, Japan.