Aves - Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
Parent taxon: Cuculiformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Mayr 2006, Olson 1975, Steadman 2008, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1956 and Worthy and Nguyen 2020
Sister taxa: Cuculi, Cuculoidae, Foratidae, Musophagi
Subtaxa: Cacomantis Centropodinae Centropus Chrysococcyx Coccyzus Coua Crotophaga Crotophaginae Cuculinae Cuculus Dromococcyx Dynamopteryx Eocuculus Eudynamys Eutreptodactylus Geococcyx Morococcyx Nannococcyx Necrornis Neococcyx Neomorphinae Phaenicophacinae Procuculus Thomasococcyx Urodynamis Veflintornis
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), the Bahamas (5), Bolivia (1), Cayman Islands (2), Colombia (1), Cook Islands (2), the Dominican Republic (2), East Timor (1), Haiti (2), Italy (1), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Pitcairn (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saint Helena (1), Solomon Islands (2), Spain (1), Tonga (3), United States (12: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of United States (2: Colorado, Florida)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), France (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 64 collections including 88 occurrences