Aves - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Parent taxon: Suliformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Alvarez 1977, Baird 1992, Bourdon et al. 2005, Brodkorb 1955, Carroll 1988, Chandler 1990, Cheneval 1984, Cheneval 1993, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Emslie 1992, Gohlich 2003, Guthrie 1992, Harrison and Walker 1976, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hope 2002, Howard 1972, Kessler and Horváth 2023, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Louchart et al. 2008, Mayr 2001, Mayr 2005, Mayr 2005, Mayr 2011, Mayr 2022, Moreno and Mercerat 1891, Mourer-Chauviré 2008, Olson 1985, Olson 1985, Olson and Hasegawa 1996, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Rasmussen et al. 1987, Wetmore 1933, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1943, Wetmore 1956, Worthy 2011, Worthy and Nguyen 2020 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Mangystania, Plotopteridae, Sulidae
Subtaxa: Borvocarbo Gulosus Leucocarbo Leucocarboninae Limicorallus Microcarbo Miocorax Nambashag Nannopterum Nectornis Oligocorax Paracorax Phalacrocoracinae Phalacrocorax Piscator Poikilocarbo Urile Valenticarbo
Type: Phalacrocorax
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Afghanistan (1 collection), Argentina (2), Australia (4), Chile (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Cyprus (1), Egypt (4), Estonia (1), Finland (1), Gibraltar (2), Greece (2), Italy (3), Japan (8), Madagascar (2), Mauritius (1), Mexico (5), Monaco (1), New Zealand (8), North Pacific (1), Norway (1), Peru (2), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (4), Spain (2), Tanzania (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (59: Alaska, California, Florida, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (12: California, Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Chad (1), Chile (2), Mongolia (1), Peru (1), South Africa (2), Ukraine (2), United States (5: California, Florida, Idaho, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (5), France (2), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Moldova (1), Peru (6), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Florida, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Australia (7), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1), United States (2: Colorado, Oregon)
• Eocene of Japan (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 217 collections including 321 occurrences