Aves - Passeriformes - Motacillidae
Parent taxon: Passeriformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Brunet 1970 and Lambrecht 1933
Sister taxa: Acanthisittidae, Acanthizidae, Acrocephalidae, Alaudidae, Artamidae, Atrichornithidae, Bernieridae, Bombycillidae, Calcariidae, Callaeidae, Calyptophilidae, Campephagidae, Cardinalidae, Certhiidae, Cinclidae, Cinclosomatidae, Climacteridae, Coerebidae, Corvidae, Corvitalusoides, Cracticidae, Dasyornithidae, Dicaeidae, Dulidae, Emberizidae, Eopsaltriidae, Estrildidae, Eurylaimidae, Formicaroidae, Fringillidae, Fringilloidae, Furnariidae, Hirundinidae, Icteridae, Laniidae, Locustellidae, Macrosphenidae, Maluridae, Meliphagidae, Menurae, Mimidae, Mohoidae, Mohouidae, Monarchidae, Muscicapidae, Nectariniidae, Oriolidae, Orthonychidae, Oscines, Pachycephalidae, Paradisaeidae, Paridae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Passeres, Passeridae, Petroicidae, Phaenicophilidae, Phylloscopidae, Pipridae, Ploceidae, Polioptilidae, Prunellidae, Psophodidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Pycnonotidae, Rhinocryptidae, Rhipiduridae, Scotocercidae, Scytalopidae, Sittidae, Spindalidae, Sturnidae, Sylviidae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tichodromidae, Tityridae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae, Vangidae, Vireonidae, Wieslochia, Winnicavis, Yunnanus, Zosteropidae
Subtaxa: Anthus Motacilla Motacillinae
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Azerbaijan (1), East Timor (1), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Madagascar (2), New Zealand (11), Norway (1), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 40 collections including 46 occurrences