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Gastornis
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Translingual
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Etymology
From mul fr Gaston (after Gaston Planté, who discovered the fossils) + mul grc ὄρνις bird.
Proper noun
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genus family Gastornithidae large flightless birds that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene epochs of the Cenozoic era