skeleton, including the skull, bearing a proportionally large, hooked beak. The bathornithid second toe is currently unknown, but the first toe is highly reduced, as with most Cariamiformes, and like phorusrhacids it possesses a robust jugal and reduced processus acrocoracoideus of coracoid, two features possibly having evolved in convergence due to their similar lifestyle.

Overall, Bathornis is a long-legged, short-winged, large-skulled