Gastornis
In Depth History and classification of Gastornis Gastornis was first named as a genus in 1855 by E. H�bert. Gastornis means ‘Gaston’s bird’, and H�bert chose this name to honour Gaston Plant�, the man who discovered the first ever (and hence holotype) fossils of Gastornis in the French Argile Plastique Formation that is not far … Read more