Aves - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Parent taxon: Struthioniformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Boev and Spassov 2009, Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Kampouridis et al. 2020, Koufos et al. 2016, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Mayr 2022, Mlikovsky 2002, Mourer-Chauviré 2008 and Mourer-Chauvire and Geraads 2008
Sister taxa: Eleutherornithidae, Ergilornithidae, Geranoididae, Palaeotididae
Subtaxa: Struthio
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (2), Niger (2), South Africa (14), Sudan (5), Tanzania (16), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), India (1), South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kenya (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Malawi (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (3), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (2), South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Bulgaria (2), China (1), Greece (4), Iraq (1), Kenya (3), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), South Africa (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (6), the United Arab Emirates (1)
Total: 108 collections including 112 occurrences