Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Full reference: K. E. Campbell. 1979. The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution 118:1-203
Belongs to Micropalama according to K. E. Campbell 1979
Sister taxa: Calidris alba, Calidris alpina, Calidris binagadensis, Calidris canutus, Calidris falcinellus, Calidris ferruginea, Calidris fuscicollis, Calidris himantopus, Calidris mauri, Calidris melanotos, Calidris minuta, Calidris minutilla, Calidris pacis, Calidris pugnax, Calidris pusilla, Calidris temminckii, Micropalama hesterna, Ereunetes rayi, Erolia penepusilla
Type specimen: ROM 13019, a limb element (right femur). Its type locality is Talara Tar Seeps, which is in a Pleistocene tar horizon in Peru.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Talara Tar Seeps
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