Aves - Strigiformes - Sophiornithidae

Full reference: C. Mourer-Chauviré. 1987. The owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Phosphorites du Quercy (France): Systematics, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Documents des laboratories des géologie, Lyon 99:89-135

Parent taxon: Strigiformes according to C. Mourer-Chauviré 1994

See also Mayr 2005 and Mourer-Chauviré 1987

Sister taxa: Berruornis, Bubonidae, Heterostrigidae, Ogygoptyngidae, Palaeoglaucidae, Primoptynx, Protostrigidae, Selenornithinae, Strigidae, Tytonidae

Subtaxa: Palaeobyas Palaeotyto Sophiornis

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Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution: found only at Phosphorites du Quercy (for taxa with non-specific locality data) (Eocene to Miocene of France)

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