| Eutreptornis Temporal range: Late Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cariamiformes (?) |
| Family: | †Bathornithidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Eutreptornis Cracraft, 1971 |
| Species: | †E. uintae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Eutreptornis uintae (Cracraft, 1971)
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Eutreptornis ("changing bird"[1])is a genus of extinct possible cariamiforme bird from the Late Eocene of Utah. It is traditionally considered to be a bathornithid,[2][3] though a combination of the relative incompleteness of the material alongside some differences from other bathornithids have raised some suspicions about this affiliation.[4][5]
- ^ Joel Cracraft, Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class Aves). 2, Additional comments on the Bathornithidae, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates; no. 2449
- ^ Joel Cracraft, Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class Aves). 2, Additional comments on the Bathornithidae, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates; no. 2449
- ^ Benton, R. C.; Terry, D. O.; Evanoff, E.; McDonald, H. G. (25 May 2015). The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01608-9.
- ^ Donald Farmer, Avian Biology, Elsevier, 02/12/2012
- ^ Gerald Mayr (2016). "Osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the middle Eocene North American Bathornis grallator—one of the best represented, albeit least known Paleogene cariamiform birds (seriemas and allies)". Journal of Paleontology 90 (2): 357–374. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.45.