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Tringinae

Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

Taxonomy

Tringinae was named by Gray (1840). It is extant.

It was assigned to Scolopacidae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1956), Cheneval (1993) and del Hoyo et al. (2014).

Subtaxa

Limicolavis, Palnumenius, Pelidna

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1840	Tringinae Gray
1930	Tringinae Hay p. 337
1933	Tringinae Lambrecht p. 534
1956	Tringinae Wetmore p. 72
1993	Tringinae Cheneval p. 90
2014	Tringinae del Hoyo 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
subfamily	Tringinae	Gray 1840
subfamily	Tringinae	Gray 1840

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.

Subfm. Tringinae Gray 1840

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G. †Limicolavis Shufeldt 1915

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†Limicolavis pluvianella Shufeldt 1915

G. †Palnumenius Miller 1942

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†Palnumenius victima Miller 1942

G. Pelidna Linnaeus 1817

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 Oligocene to the top of the Messinian or 33.90000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oligocene	33.9 - 23.03	USA (Oregon)	Limicolavis pluvianella (176030)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Peru (Caraveli)	Tringinae indet. (46084)