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Burhinidae (stone-curlew)
Taxonomy
Burhinidae was named by Mathews (1912). It is extant.
It was assigned to Gruae by Lambrecht (1933); to Burhinoidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Charadriiformes by Brodkorb (1959), Cracraft (1972), Harrison and Walker (1976), Bickart (1981), Carroll (1988) and Clements et al. (2017); and to Charadrii by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Mayr (2022).
It was assigned to Gruae by Lambrecht (1933); to Burhinoidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Charadriiformes by Brodkorb (1959), Cracraft (1972), Harrison and Walker (1976), Bickart (1981), Carroll (1988) and Clements et al. (2017); and to Charadrii by del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Mayr (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1912 | Burhinidae Mathews |
| 1933 | Burhinidae Lambrecht p. 530 |
| 1959 | Burhinidae Brodkorb |
| 1972 | Burhinidae Cracraft p. 36 |
| 1976 | Burhinidae Harrison and Walker p. 348 |
| 1981 | Burhinidae Bickart p. 274 |
| 1988 | Burhinidae Carroll |
| 2007 | Burhinidae Livezey and Zusi p. 92 |
| 2014 | Burhinidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Burhinidae Clements et al. |
| 2022 | Burhinidae Mayr p. 77 figs. Fig. 5.2 |
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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. Burhinidae Mathews 1912 [stone-curlew]
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G. Burhinus Illiger 1811 [thick-knee]
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Burhinus bistriatus Wagler 1829 [double-striped thick-knee]
Burhinus capensis Lichtenstein 1823 [spotted thick-knee]
Burhinus grallarius Latham 1801 [Bush thick-knee]
Burhinus indicus Salvadori 1865 [Indian thick-knee]
†Burhinus lucorum Bickart 1981
†Burhinus nanus Brodkorb 1959 [Bahama thick-knee]
Burhinus oedicnemus Linnaeus 1758 [Eurasian thick-knee]
Burhinus senegalensis Swainson 1837 [Senegal thick-knee]
Burhinus superciliaris von Tschudi 1843 [Peruvian thick-knee]
Burhinus vermiculatus Cabanis 1868 [Water thick-knee]
Invalid names: Oedicnemus Temminck 1815 [synonym]
G. Esacus Lesson 1831
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Esacus magnirostris Vieillot 1818 [beach thick-knee]
Esacus recurvirostris Cuvier 1829 [Great thick-knee]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bridgerian to the top of the Holocene or 50.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 46.2 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | Burhinidae indet. (16296) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Burhinidae indet. (51412) | |
| Hemingfordian | USA (Nebraska) | Burhinus lucorum (18001) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | Burhinidae indet. (22070 22082) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Burhinus magnirostris (181314) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Burhinus sp. (71670) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ecuador | Burhinus superciliaris (152599) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | Venezuela (Zulia) | Burhinus sp. (63515) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | Burhinus superciliaris (71346) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (New Providence Island) | Burhinus nanus (144649 194588 194590) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Burhinus capensis (177147) | |
| Holocene | Turks and Caicos Islands | Burhinus sp. (209855) | |
| Holocene | India | Esacus recurvirostris (215533) |