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Coenocorypha

Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

Taxonomy

Coenocorypha was named by Gray (1855). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scolopacinae by Lambrecht (1933); and to Scolopacidae by Worthy (1997), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003) and Clements et al. (2017).

Species

C. aucklandica, C. chathamica, C. iredalei, C. miratropica, C. neocaledonica, C. pusilla

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1855	Coenocorypha Gray
1933	Coenocorypha Lambrecht p. 539
1997	Coenocorypha Worthy p. 105
2003	Coenocorypha Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 451
2017	Coenocorypha Clements et al.

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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	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
family	Scolopacidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Coenocorypha	Gray 1855

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. Coenocorypha Gray 1855

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Coenocorypha aucklandica Gray 1845 [subantarctic snipe]

†Coenocorypha chathamica Forbes 1893 [Forbes's snipe]

†Coenocorypha iredalei Rothschild 1921 [South Island snipe]

†Coenocorypha miratropica Worthy 2003

†Coenocorypha neocaledonica Worthy et al. 2013 [New Caledonian snipe]

Coenocorypha pusilla Butler 1869 [Chatham Islands 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: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma

Collections (29 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	New Zealand (South Island)	C. iredalei (87810 87814)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene	0.129 - 0.0	New Zealand	C. aucklandica (182103 182104)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	New Zealand	C. aucklandica (100554 195151) C. chathamica (198088) C. chathamica, C. pusilla (194614)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Fiji	C. miratropica (194728)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	New Caledonia	C. neocaledonica (193986) C. sp. (193984 193987)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	New Zealand (South Island)	C. aucklandica (215380 215387 215391 215392 215395 215403 215415 215416 215418 215419 215420 215422 215580 215582 215583 215614 215617)