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Rostratulidae

Reptilia - Theropoda - Rostratulidae

Taxonomy

Rostratulidae was named by Ridgway (1919). It is extant.

It was assigned to Limicolae by Lambrecht (1933); to Charadriiformes by Carroll (1988); to Parrae by Livezey and Zusi (2007); and to Scolopaci by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Mayr (2022).

Subtaxa

Nycticryphes, Rostratula

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1919	Rostratulidae Ridgway
1933	Rostratulidae Lambrecht p. 531
1988	Rostratulidae Carroll
2007	Rostratulidae Livezey and Zusi p. 92
2014	Rostratulidae del Hoyo et al.
2022	Rostratulidae Mayr p. 77 figs. Fig. 5.2

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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	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
order	Theropoda
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
suborder	Parrae
family	Rostratulidae	Ridgway 1919
family	Rostratulidae	Ridgway 1919

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.

Fm. Rostratulidae Ridgway 1919

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G. Nycticryphes Wetmore and Peters 1923

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Nycticryphes semicollaris Vieillot 1816

G. Rostratula Vieillot 1816

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Rostratula australis Gould 1838 [Australian painted-snipe]

Rostratula benghalensis Linnaeus 1758 [Greater painted-snipe]

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:

marineo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2017-04-17 10:41:05

Modified:

2017-04-17 10:41:05

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	South Africa	Rostratula minator (22221)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Argentina	Nycticryphes semicollaris (215478)