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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