Vertebrate paleontology

scientific study of prehistoric and fossil vertebrates

thumb|Endocast of Australopithecus sediba

Odontornithes is an obsolete and disused taxonomic term proposed by Othniel Charles Marsh for birds possessing teeth, notably the genera Hesperornis and Ichthyornis from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas.

thumb|Bird ichnology|Ichnofossil of a [[moa footprint from the Gisborne District, New Zealand]]