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| Ichthyornis Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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| Subclass: | †Ichthyornithes
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| Genus: | †Ichthyornis
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| Ichthyornis dispar Marsh, 1872
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Ichthyornis (meaning "fish bird") was a tern-like bird which lived 93-83.5 million years ago in the Upper Cretaceous. It lived in flocks, nested on shorelines, and hunted for fish in the Western Interior Seaway, a huge inland sea in what is now North America.