Reptilia - Ardeiformes - Ardeidae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(11):275-320

Belongs to Calcardea according to P. D. Gingerich 1987

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UM 76882, a partial skeleton (fragmentary sternum, coracoids, left humerus, vertebrae, tarsometatarsi, and phalanges). Its type locality is Discovery Site, which is in a Clarkforkian wet floodplain wackestone in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: volant piscivore