Diatropornis


Diatropornis is an extinct genus of vultures dated to the period from late Eocene to early Oligocene. Diatropornis ellioti has a known location of
Phosphorites du Quercy and Boussac, in France. Milne-Edwards described the bird, at that stage known as Tapinopus ellioti, as having mainly a terrestrial rather than aerial existence, and had a diet of insects, small mammals, vertebrates, snakes and amphibians. Oberholser is also cited at the genus level with his renaming to Diatropornis.