Parent taxon: Procellariimorphae according to G. Sangster and G. Mayr 2021
See also Baird 1992, Carroll 1988, Clarke et al. 2007, Clarke et al. 2003, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Fordyce and Thomas 2011, Gadow 1898, Jadwiszczak 2006, Jadwiszczak 2006, Jadwiszczak 2012, Ksepka and Clarke 2010, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Mayr 2022, Myrcha et al. 2002, Park and Fitzgerald 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Slack et al. 2006
Sister taxon: Procellariiformes
Subtaxa: Anthropornis Aprosdokitos Archaeospheniscus Crossvallia Delphinornis Duntroonornis Icadyptes Inkayacu Kaiika Kairuku Korora Kumimanu Kupoupou Marambiornis Mesetaornis Muriwaimanu Pachydyptes Palaeospheniscinae Paraptenodytinae Perudyptes Petradyptes Platydyptes Sequiwaimanu Spheniscidae Tonniornis Waimanu Wimanornis
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (5 collections), Australia (5), French Southern Territories (1), New Zealand (20), Peru (1), South Africa (5)
• Pliocene of Chile (4), New Zealand (4), Peru (1), South Africa (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (3), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (13), Australia (6), Chile (5), Peru (9), South Africa (2)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Antarctica (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (12)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (7)
• Eocene of Antarctica (32), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (3), New Zealand (6), Peru (4)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (11)
Total: 181 collections including 326 occurrences