Parent taxon: Falconimorphae according to B. C. Livezey and R. L. Zusi 2007
See also Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Guthrie 1992, Mayr 2005, Parmalee 1992, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1960
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Berruornis Bubonidae Heterostrigidae Ogygoptyngidae Palaeoglaucidae Primoptynx Protostrigidae Selenornithinae Sophiornithidae Strigidae Tytonidae
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (2 collections), Argentina (1), Australia (6), the Bahamas (8), Belgium (1), Bermuda (1), Canada (3: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), Cayman Islands (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Cuba (5), the Dominican Republic (2), East Timor (2), Ecuador (2), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), France (5), Greece (20), Haiti (2), Hungary (3), Indonesia (7), Italy (13), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Madagascar (5), Malaysia (5), Mauritius (7), Mexico (2), Monaco (1), New Caledonia (6), New Zealand (14), Niue (7), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (2), the Philippines (1), Portugal (5), Reunion (4), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (3), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (2), Spain (13), Sudan (1), Tanzania (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (94: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: Oregon)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (2), South Africa (1), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Hungary (2), Morocco (1), Spain (3), Tanzania (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of Hungary (1), Italy (9), Kenya (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Nebraska, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (1), France (3), Germany (1), Mongolia (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (2), Germany (2), Mongolia (1), United States (7: California, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of France (2), Germany (1), United States (1: Colorado)
Total: 350 collections including 567 occurrences