Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Synonyms: Phalaropodidae Bonaparte 1831, Phalaropodinae Bonaparte 1831
Parent taxon: Charadriiformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Alvarez 1977, Brodkorb 1955, Brunet 1970, Campbell 1979, Carroll 1988, Chandler 1990, Cheneval 1993, De Pietri and Mayr 2012, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Emslie 1992, Emslie 1998, Guthrie 1992, Harrison and Walker 1976, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Mayr 2005, Mayr 2022, Mourer-Chauviré et al. 2004, Nelson et al. 2016, Olson and James 1982, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Parmalee 1992, Smith 2011, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Alcae, Alcoidae, Burhinidae, Charadrii, Chionidae, Cimolopterygidae, Dakotornithidae, Elseyornis, Erythrogonys, Graculavidae, Graculavus, Haematopodidae, Hydrophasianus, Jacanidae, Lari, Limicolae, Panalcidae, Parrae, Pedionomae, Pedionomidae, Peltohyas, Phegornis, Pluvianellus, Pluvianidae, Recurvirostridae, Rhinoptilus, Sarjeantopodus, Scolopaci, Stercorariidae, Telmatornis, Telmatornithidae, Thinocoridae, Thinornis, Turnicidae, Volgavis
Subtaxa: Actitis Arenaria Bartramia Calidriinae Calidrinae Calidris Coenocorypha Elorius Eroliinae Gallinago Heteroscelus Limnodromus Limosa Limosinae Lymnocryptes Numeniinae Numenius Nuntius Palaeotringinae Paractitis Parvelorius Phalaropus Philohela Prosobonia Scolopacinae Scolopax Totanus Tringa Tringinae Tryngites Villetus Xenus
Type: Scolopax
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of American Samoa (1 collection), Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (2), the Bahamas (7), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Cayman Islands (2), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Cook Islands (1), Cuba (3), East Timor (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (2), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), Fiji (1), Finland (3), France (3), French Polynesia (1), Greece (13), Greenland (4), Haiti (1), Indonesia (12), Italy (11), Japan (6), Jordan (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (3), Micronesia (3), Monaco (1), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (27), Norfolk Island (4), Peru (1), Pitcairn (13), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (1), Reunion (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Solomon Islands (4), Spain (8), Tonga (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (69: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)
• Blancan of United States (2: Florida, Kansas)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida, Kansas, Oregon)
• Miocene of Australia (1), France (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of France (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 268 collections including 491 occurrences