Genus: Iaceornis CLARKE, 2004
Etymology: Latin, iaceo, figurative for "to be neglected" and Greek, ornis,
"bird": To be neglected bird.
Species: marshi CLARKE, 2004
Etymology: In honor of O.C. Marsh, who
originally described the holotype specimen (MARSH, 1880)
= Aptornis
celer (referred
material).
Holotype: YPM 1734
Locality: Butte Creek, near Smoky Hill River, Logan County, Kansas.
Horizon: “yellow chalk of the Pteranodon beds”, Smoky Hill Member, Niobrara Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Coniacian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Pelvis, both coracoids, both scapulae, proximal end of left clavicle, proximal end of left radius, left ulnare and radalae, right carpometacarpus, right phalanges 1 and 2 of manual digit II, proximal and distal fragments of left femur, distal right tibiotarsus, a rib, and miscellaneous unidentifiable fragments..