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Presbyornithidae
Taxonomy
Presbyornithidae was named by Wetmore (1926). Its type is Presbyornis.
It was reranked as the subfamily Presbyornithinae by Lambrecht (1933).
It was assigned to Aves by Wetmore (1926); to Charadrioidae by Hay (1930); to Charadriidae by Lambrecht (1933); to Charadrioidea by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Wetmore (1960); to Anatoidea by Livezey (1997), Hope (2002), Kurochkin et al. (2002), Clarke et al. (2005) and Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Presbyornithoidea by Worthy et al. (2017); to Anseriformes by Carroll (1988), Noriega and Tambussi (1995), Kurochkin (2000), Tambussi et al. (2019) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020); and to Anseriformes by Mayr (2005) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was reranked as the subfamily Presbyornithinae by Lambrecht (1933).
It was assigned to Aves by Wetmore (1926); to Charadrioidae by Hay (1930); to Charadriidae by Lambrecht (1933); to Charadrioidea by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Wetmore (1960); to Anatoidea by Livezey (1997), Hope (2002), Kurochkin et al. (2002), Clarke et al. (2005) and Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Presbyornithoidea by Worthy et al. (2017); to Anseriformes by Carroll (1988), Noriega and Tambussi (1995), Kurochkin (2000), Tambussi et al. (2019) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020); and to Anseriformes by Mayr (2005) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
Subtaxa
Bumbalavis, Headonornis, Murgonornis, Presbyornis (syn. Coltonia) (type genus), Telmabates, Teviornis, Wilaru, Zhylgaia
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Presbyornithidae Wetmore p. 396 |
| 1930 | Presbyornithidae Hay p. 339 |
| 1933 | Presbyornithinae Lambrecht p. 533 |
| 1940 | Presbyornithidae Wetmore p. 60 |
| 1956 | Presbyornithidae Wetmore p. 75 |
| 1960 | Presbyornithidae Wetmore p. 28 |
| 1988 | Presbyornithidae Carroll |
| 1995 | Presbyornithidae Noriega and Tambussi p. 58 |
| 1997 | Presbyornithidae Livezey p. 398 |
| 2000 | Presbyornithidae Kurochkin p. 551 |
| 2002 | Presbyornithidae Hope p. 355 |
| 2002 | Presbyornithidae Kurochkin et al. p. 3 |
| 2005 | Presbyornithidae Clarke et al. p. 307 |
| 2005 | Presbyornithidae Mayr p. 318 |
| 2007 | Presbyornithidae Livezey and Zusi p. 90 |
| 2017 | Presbyornithidae Worthy et al. |
| 2019 | Presbyornithidae Tambussi et al. |
| 2020 | Presbyornithidae Worthy and Nguyen p. 74 |
| 2023 | Presbyornithidae Tambussi et al. p. 267 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Presbyornithidae Wetmore 1926
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G. †Presbyornis Wetmore 1926
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†Presbyornis isoni Olson 1994
†Presbyornis mongoliensis Kurochkin and Dyke 2010
†Presbyornis pervetus Wetmore 1926
†Presbyornis recurvirostrus Hardy 1959
Invalid names: Coltonia Hardy 1959 [synonym]
G. †Wilaru Boles et al. 2013
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†Wilaru prideauxi De Pietri et al. 2016
†Wilaru tedfordi Boles et al. 2013
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Maastrichtian to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 72.10000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Campanian | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Presbyornithidae indet. (65344) | |
| Maastrichtian | Mongolia | Teviornis gobiensis (84444) | |
| Lancian | USA (Wyoming) | Presbyornithidae indet. sp. 4, Presbyornithidae indet. sp. 3, Presbyornithidae indet. sp. 2 (14519) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (North Dakota) | Presbyornis isoni (15000) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | Mongolia (Omnogov) | Presbyornithidae indet., Presbyornis mongoliensis (37008) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | Kazakhstan (Chimkent) | Zhylgaia aestiflua (48888) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Maryland) | Presbyornis isoni (84046) | |
| Casamayoran | Argentina (Chubut) | Telmabates antiquus, Telmabates howardae (39295) | |
| Ypresian | Australia (Queensland) | Murgonornis archeri (59088) | |
| Eocene | Argentina (La Pampa) | Aves indet. (45418) | |
| Eocene | USA (Utah) | Coltonia recurvirostra (74296) Presbyornis pervetus (123112) | |
| Wasatchian | Canada (Nunavut) | Presbyornis pervetus (185212) | |
| Bumbanian | Mongolia (Southern Mongolia) | Presbyornis mongoliensis, Presbyornis sp. (37206) | |
| Wasatchian - Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | Presbyornis sp. (16134) | |
| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | Presbyornis sp. (16296) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | Presbyornithidae indet. (41888) | |
| Bartonian - Priabonian | Antarctica | Presbyornithidae indet. (31173) | |
| Priabonian | Kazakhstan | Presbyornithidae indet. (113118) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | Headonornis hantoniensis (181272) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wilaru prideauxi (28306) Wilaru tedfordi (183466) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wilaru prideauxi (13313) |