High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Baptornis ("diving bird") is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic bird from the Late Cretaceous, some 87-80 million years ago (roughly mid-Coniacian to mid-Campanian faunal stages). The fossils of Baptornis advenus, the type species, were discovered in Kansas, which at its time was mostly covered by the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow shelf sea. It is now known to have also occurred in today`s Sweden, where the Turgai Strait joined the ancient North Sea; possibly, it occurred in the entire Holarctic.