"hesperornithiform" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Gregory S. Paul, Dinosaurs of the Air, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 151",
          "text": "Flight loss among marine divers started in the Cretaceous, among the hesperornithiforms and perhaps separately in the baptornithids.",
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          "ref": "2015 November 19, “Identification of a New Hesperornithiform from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk and Implications for Ecologic Diversity among Early Diving Birds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI",
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          "ref": "2016, Luis M. Chiappe, Meng Qingjin, Birds of Stone, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 238",
          "text": "Comprehensive studies of hesperornithiforms show how some of these birds independently evolved large sizes (at least twice) during their long evolutionary history.",
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