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Proardea

Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae

Taxonomy

Proardea was named by Lambrecht (1933). Its type is Ardea amissa.

It was assigned to Ardeinae by Becker (1985); and to Ardeidae by Lambrecht (1933), Carroll (1988) and Mlikovsky (2002).

Species

P. amissa, P. deschutteri

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1933	Proardea Lambrecht p. 311
1985	Proardea Becker p. 28
1988	Proardea Carroll
2002	Proardea Mlikovsky p. 68

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Aequornithes
—	Feraequornithes
superorder	Pelecanimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Pelecaniformes	Sharpe 1891
family	Ardeidae	Leach 1820
subfamily	Ardeinae
genus	Proardea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Proardea Lambrecht 1933

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†Proardea amissa Milne-Edwards 1892

†Proardea deschutteri Mayr et al. 2019

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialf

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

volantf

Diet:

piscivoref

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 16:51:50

Modified:

2009-01-03 18:51:50

Source: f = family, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Thiollay 1994

Age range: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Belgium	P. deschutteri (31748)