Aves - Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Parent taxon: Procellariiformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Alcover 1989, Baird 1992, Bourdon et al. 2005, Carroll 1988, Case 1904, Chandler 1990, Cheneval 1993, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Guthrie 1992, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Howard 1968, Howard 1972, Howard 1978, Howard and Barnes 1987, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Miller and Bowman 1958, Mlikovsky 2002, Olson 1975, Olson 1985, Olson 1985, Olson 1985, Olson and James 1982, Olson and James 1991, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Segui et al. 2001, Tambussi et al. 2023, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Diomedeidae, Diomedeoididae, Hydrobatidae, Hydrotherikornis, Kievornis, Makahala, Marinavidae, Oceanitidae, Pandiomedeidae, Pelecanoidi, Pelecanoididae, Procellarae, Rupelornis, Rupelornis definitus, Tytthostonychidae
Subtaxa: Aphrodroma Ardenna Argyrodyptes Bulweria Calonectris Daption Diomedeoides Eopuffinus Fulmarinae Fulmarus Halobaena Macronectes Oestrelata Pachyptila Pachyptilinae Pagodroma Pelecanoides Primodroma Procellaria Procellariinae Pseudobulweria Pterodroma Pterodromoides Puffininae Puffinini Puffinus Thalassoica
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of American Samoa (1 collection), Antarctica (4), Antigua and Barbuda (3), Australia (7), the Bahamas (6), Barbados (1), Bermuda (5), Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), Cayman Islands (7), Chile (1), Cook Islands (6), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (2), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), French Polynesia (34), French Southern Territories (1), Gibraltar (2), Greece (2), Greenland (3), Guam (1), Haiti (1), Italy (4), Japan (7), Madagascar (1), the Marshall Islands (3), Martinique (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (1), Micronesia (2), Montserrat (1), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (61), Norfolk Island (6), Northern Mariana Islands (4), Norway (2), Palau (7), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (1), Pitcairn (12), Portugal (3), Reunion (7), Saint Helena (12), the Seychelles (3), Solomon Islands (9), South Africa (1), South Atlantic (1), Spain (3), Tonga (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Alaska, California, Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (1), Yemen (1)
• Blancan of United States (8: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (4), Peru (2), South Africa (4), Spain (3), United States (5: California, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Neogene of Italy (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Chile (3), France (2), Mexico (4), New Zealand (2), Peru (2), United States (17: California, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), the United Kingdom (2)
• Paleocene of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 363 collections including 708 occurrences