Aves - Strigiformes - Ogygoptyngidae

Full reference: P. V. Rich and D. J. Bohaska. 1981. The Ogygoptyngidae, a new family of owls from the Paleocene of North America. Alcheringa 5(2):95-102

Parent taxon: Strigiformes according to P. V. Rich and D. J. Bohaska 1981

See also Carroll 1988

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

Subtaxa: Ogygoptynx

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Ecology: volant carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mason Pocket (Paleocene of Colorado)

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