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! Novelty
! Status
! Author
! Age
! Unit
! Location
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Aegialornis broweri [{{Cite journal|author=Charles T. Collins |year=1976 |title=A Review of the Lower Miocene Swifts (Aves: Apodiae) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=129–132 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Charles T. Collins
|
Eocene or Oligocene
|
Phosphorites du Quercy,
MP 16-28;
Geiseltal
|
- {{flag|France}}
- {{flag|DDR}}
|
An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891, transferred to the new genus Mesogiornis Mlíkovský, 2002. by Mlíkovský, 2002.[{{Cite journal |author=Jírí Mlíkovský |year=2002 |title=Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe |url=http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf |journal=Praha Ninox Press |pages=1–407 |access-date=2014-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520101755/http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-20 |url-status=dead }}]
| |
Aegialornis wetmorei [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Charles T. Collins
|
Eocene or Oligocene
|
Phosphorites du Quercy,
MP 16-28
|
|
An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891, transferred to the new genus Mesogiornis Mlíkovský, 2002. by Mlíkovský, 2002.,[ it is the type species of the new genus.]
| |
Alexornis antecedens [{{Cite journal|author=Pierce Brodkorb |year=1976 |title=Discovery of a Cretaceous Bird, Apparently Ancestral to the Orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=67–73 }}]
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Pierce Brodkorb
|
Late Cretaceous
|
Campanian
|
|
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976.
| |
Anas soporata [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Miocene-Pliocene
|
Chirgiz-Nur Formation
|
|
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Dendrocygna by Jíří Mlíkovský & Petr Švec, 1986.[{{Cite journal |author=Jíří Mlíkovský & Petr Švec |year=1986 |title=Review of the Tertiary Waterfowl (Aves: Anseridae) of Asia |url=http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/038-1986-TertiaryAnseridaeofAsia.pdf |journal=Vestnik Ceskoslovenske Spolecnosti Zoologicke |volume=50 |pages=249–272 |access-date=2014-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232912/http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/038-1986-TertiaryAnseridaeofAsia.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}]
| |
Anser liskunae [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Middle Pliocene
|
Zavhan
|
|
An Anatidae.
| |
Apteribis glenos [{{Cite journal |author=Storrs L. Olson & Alexander Wetmore |year=1976 |title=Preliminary Diagnoses of Two Extraordinary New Genera of Birds from Pleistocene Deposits in the Hawaiian Islands |url=http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/1b/cd/33/1bcd33212b4db0c466fd934f18fb2dd0.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=89 |pages=247–258 |access-date=2014-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913170227/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/1b/cd/33/1bcd33212b4db0c466fd934f18fb2dd0.pdf |archive-date=2014-09-13 |url-status=dead }}]
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Storrs L. Olson
Alexander Wetmore
|
Holocene
|
25,000 Ybp
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Hawaii}})
|
A Threskiornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Aythya spatiosa [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Early Pliocene
|
Hyargas Nuur Formation
|
|
An Anatidae.
| |
Apus wetmorei [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Peter Ballmann
|
Early Pliocene
|
Gargano,
MN 14-15
|
|
An Apodidae.
| |
Butorides validipes [{{Cite journal|author=Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr. |year=1976 |title=An Early Pleistoceen Avifauna from Haile XVA, Florida |url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v088n02/p0345-p0347.pdf |journal=Wilson Bulletin |volume=88 |issue=2 |pages=345–347 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.
|
Early Pleistocene
|
Late Blancan
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Florida}})
|
An Ardeidae.
| |
Columba omnisanctorum [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Peter Ballmann
|
Early Pliocene
|
Gargano,
ppMN 14-15
|
|
A Columbidae.
| |
Eobucco brodkorbi [{{Cite journal|author=Alan Feduccia & Larry D. Martin |year=1976 |title=The Eocene Zygodactyl Birds of North America (Aves: Piciformes) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=101–110 }}]
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Alan Feduccia
Larry D. Martin
|
Middle Eocene
|
Bridger Formation
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Wyoming}})
|
Described as a Piciformes, Primobucconidae Feduccia et Martin, 1976, now placed in the Coliiformes, Sandcileidae Houde et Olson, 1992, it is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Gigantibis incognita [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 17
|
|
Described as a Threskiornithidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Olson, 1981,[{{Cite journal|author=Storrs L. Olson |year=1981 |title=The Generic Allocation of Ibis pagana Milne-Edwards, with A Review of the Fossil Ibises (Aves: Threskiornithidae) |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7085/VZ_120_Ibis_pagana.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=165–170 |doi=10.1080/02724634.1981.10011888|citeseerx=10.1.1.510.7434 }}] this is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Heterochen vicinus [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Late Miocene
|
Hyargas Nuur Formation
|
|
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Anser by Jíří Mlíkovský & Petr Švec, 1986,[ and made the type species of his new genus Heteroanser by Nikita V. Zelenkov, 2012.][{{Cite journal|author=Nikita V. Zelenkov |year=2012 |title=Neogene Geese and Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Localities of the Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257843235 |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=46 |issue=11 |pages=607–619 |doi=10.1134/S0031030112060123 |s2cid=84232041 }}]
| |
Howardia eous [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 17
|
|
An Anatidae, this is the type species of this new genus but it is preoccupied by Howardia Berlese et Leonardi, 1896. (Insecta: Hemiptera)so transferred to and becoming the type species of the new genus Palaeopapia Harrison et Walker, 1979 by Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker in 1979.[{{Cite journal|author=Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker |year=1979 |title=New Names for Two Upper Eocene Bird Genera |journal=Tertiary Research |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=110 }}]
| |
Jacana farrandi [{{Cite journal |author=Storrs L. Olson |year=1976 |title=A Jacana from the Pliocene of Florida (Aves: Jacanide) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/43957 |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=89 |pages=259–264 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Storrs L. Olson
|
Middle Pliocene
|
Alachua Formatie,
Early Hemphillian
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Florida}})
|
A Jacanidae.
| |
Macrodontopteryx oweni [{{Cite journal|author=Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker |year=1976 |title=A Review of the Bony-Toothed Birds (Odontopterygiformes): with the Description of Some New Species |journal=Tertiary Research Special Papers |volume=2 |pages=1–72 }}]
|
Gen. nov et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Early Eocene
|
Ypresian,
MP 8-9
|
|
A Pelagornithidae Fürbringer, 1888, this is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Milvago alexandri [{{Cite journal |author=Storrs L. Olson |year=1976 |title=A new species of Milvago from Hispaniola, with notes on other fossil caracaras from the West Indies (Aves: Falconidae) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/44195 |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=355–366 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Storrs L. Olson
|
Late Pleistocene
|
Cave deposits
|
|
A Falconidae.
| |
Nyctanassa kobdoena [{{Cite journal|author=Evgeny N. Kurochkin |year=1976 |title=[New Data on Paleocene Birds of Western Mongolia] |journal=Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=51–67 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Late Miocene
|
|
|
An Ardeidae.
| |
Ogygoptynx wetmorei [{{Cite journal|author=Patricia Vickers Rich & David J. Bohaska |year=1976 |title=The World's Oldest Owl: A New Strigiform from the Paleocene of Southwestern Colorado |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=87–93 }}]
|
Gen. nov et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Patricia Vickers Rich
David J. Bohaska
|
Middle Paleocene
|
Tiffanian
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Colorado}})
|
A Strigiformes, Ogygoptyngidae Rich et Bohaska, 1981.,[{{Cite journal |author=Patricia Vickers Rich & David J. Bohaska |year=1981 |title=The Ogygoptyngidae, a New Family of Owls from the Paleocene of North America |url=http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Rich%20&%20Bohaska%201981.pdf |journal=Alcheringa |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=95–102 |doi=10.1080/03115518108565424 |access-date=2022-05-14 |archive-date=2020-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727203020/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Rich%20%26%20Bohaska%201981.pdf |url-status=dead }}] this is the type species and type genus of the new genus and the new family.
| |
Oreopholus orcesi [{{Cite journal|author=Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr. |year=1976 |title=The Late Pleistocene Avifauna of La Carolina, Southwestern Ecuador |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=155–168 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr.
|
Pleistocene
|
La Carolina
|
|
A Charadriidae.
| |
Palaeotodus emryi [{{Cite journal|author=Storrs L. Olson |year=1976 |title=Oligocene Fossils Bearing on the Origins of the Todidae and the Motmotidae (Aves: Coraciiformes) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |issue= 27|pages=111–119 |doi=10.5479/si.00810266.27.1}}]
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Storrs L. Olson
|
Oligocene
|
Brule Formation
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Wyoming}})
|
A Todidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Pandion homalopteron [{{Cite journal|author=Stuart L. Warter |year=1976 |title=A New Osprey from the Miocene of California (Falconiformes: Pandionidae) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=133–139 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Stuart L. Warter
|
Middle Miocene
|
Barstovian
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|California}})
|
A Pandionidae.
| |
Pelecanus aethiopicus [{{Cite journal|author=Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker |year=1976 |title=A New Fossil Pelican from Olduvai |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=315–320 |doi=10.5962/p.313817 |doi-access=free }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Early Middle Pleistocene
|
Olduvai Series
|
|
A Pelecanidae.
| |
Petropluvialis simplex [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 17
|
|
Described in the Burhinidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský 2002,[ according to Mayr et Smith, 2001 ][{{Cite journal|author=Gerald Mayr & Richard Smith |year=2001 |title=Ducks, Rails and Limicoline Waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the Lowermost Oligocene of Belgium |url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/ornithologie/belgium_geobios.pdf |journal=Praha Ninox Press |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=547–561 |doi=10.1016/s0016-6995(01)80069-3}}] closely related to Palaeopapia eous (Harrison et Walker, 1976) and possibly synonymous with this species so they place it in the Anseriformes, this is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Phalacrocorax reliquus [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
|
Pliocene
|
|
|
A Phalacrocoracidae.
| |
Phoenicopterus aethiopicus [{{Cite journal|author=Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker |year=1976 |title=Cranial Material of Oligocene and Miocene Flamingos: With a Description of a New Species |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series |volume=27 |pages=305–314 |doi=10.5962/p.313816 |doi-access=free }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Collin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Early Miocene
|
Rusinga Island
Maboko Island
|
|
A Phoenicopteridae, transferred to the genus Leakeyornis Vickers-Rich & Walker, 1983 by Patricia Vickers Rich & Cyril A. Walker,[{{Cite journal|author=Patricia Vickers Rich & Cyril A. Walker |year=1983 |title=A New Genus of Miocene Flamingo from East Africa |journal=Ostrich |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=95–104 |doi=10.1080/00306525.1983.9634452}}] it is the type species of the new genus.
| |
Piscator tenuirostris [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 17
|
|
Described in the Phalacrocoracidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský 2002,[ this is the type species of the new genus.]
| |
Podilymbus wetmorei [{{Cite journal|author=Robert W. Storer |year=1976 |title=The Pleistocene Pied-billed Grebes (Aves: Podicipedidae) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=147–153 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Robert W. Storer
|
Late Pleistocene
|
Rancholabrean
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Florida}})
|
A Podicipedidae.
| |
Praemancalla wetmorei [{{Cite journal|author=Hildegarde Howard |year=1976 |title=A New Species of Flightless Auk from the Miocene of California (Alcidae: Mancallinae) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=141–146 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Hildegarde Howard
|
Late Miocene
|
Monterey Formatie
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|California}})
|
An Alcidae, transferred to the genus Miomancalla N. A. Smith, 2011 by N. Adam Smith, 2011.[{{Cite journal |author=N. Adam Smith |year=2011 |title=Taxonomic Revision and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae) |url=http://paleosmith.org/Smith%202011.pdf |journal=ZooKeys |volume=91 |pages=1–116 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.91.709 |pmid=21594108 |pmc=3084493 |access-date=2014-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020091938/http://paleosmith.org/Smith%202011.pdf |archive-date=2014-10-20 |url-status=dead |doi-access=free }}]
| |
Primobucco olsoni [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Alan Feduccia
Larry D. Martin
|
Early Eocene;
Middle Eocene
|
Green River Formation
|
- {{flag|UK}}
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Wyoming}})
|
Described as a Piciformes, Primobucconidae Feduccia et Martin, 1976, made the type species of the new genus Cyrilavis Martin, 2010 [{{Cite journal|author=Larry D. Martin |year=2010 |title=Paleogene Avifauna of the Holarctic |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201011/P020101112318452862462.pdf |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=367–374 }}] and placed in the stem Psittaciformes, Halcyornithidae Harrison et Walker, 1972.
| |
Pseudodontornis longidentata [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Early Eocene
|
Ypresian,
MP 8-9
|
|
A Pelagornithidae Fürbringer, 1888.
| |
Strix? perpasta [{{Cite journal|author=Peter Ballmann |year=1976 |title=Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien) Zweiter Teil |journal=Scripta Geologica |volume=38 |pages=1–59 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Peter Ballmann
|
Early Pliocene
|
Gargano,
MN 14-15
|
|
A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Bubo by Mlíkovský 1998.[{{Cite journal|author=Jíří Mlíkovský |year=1998 |title=Two New Owls (Aves: Strigidae) from the Early Miocene of the Czech Republic, with Comments on the Fossil History of the Subfamily Striginae |url=http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global_owl_project/descriptions/Fossil_owls/Mlikovsky%201998%20-%20Two%20new%20owls%20-%20notes%20on%20Striginae.pdf |journal=Buteo |volume=10 |pages=5–21 }}]
| |
Tenuicrus magnum [{{Cite journal|author=Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker |year=1976 |title=Birds of the British Upper Eocene |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=323–351 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb01017.x}}]
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 17
|
|
A Phoenicopteriformes, Juncitarcidae, this is the type of this new genus but it is preoccupied by Tenuicrus Womersley, 1940. (Arachnida: Acarina)so transferred to and becoming the type species of the new genus Kashinia Harrison et Walker, 1979 by Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker in 1979.
| |
Tetrao macropus [{{Cite journal|author=Dénes Jánossy |year=1976 |title=Plio-Pleistocene Bird Remains from the Carpathian Basin. I. Galliformes. 1. Tetraonidae |url=https://archive.org/details/aquila821975magy |journal=Aquila |volume=82 |pages=13–36 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Dénes Jánossy
|
Late Pliocene
|
MN 18
|
|
A Phasianidae.
| |
Thambetochen chauliodous [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Storrs L. Olson
Alexander Wetmore
|
Holocene
|
Molokai, Oahu, Maui
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Hawaii}})
|
The first described moa-nalo, an Anatidae.
| |
Uintornis marionae [{{Cite journal|author= Alan Feduccia & Larry D. Martin |year=1976 |title=The Eocene Zygodactyl Birds of North America (Aves: Piciformes) |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.pdf |journal=In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=27 |pages=101–110 }}]
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Alan Feduccia
Larry D. Martin
|
Middle Eocene
|
Bridger Formation
|
- {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Wyoming}})
|
Described in the Piciformes, Primobucconidae Feduccia & Martin, 1976, transferred to the Coliiformes, Sandcoleidae Houde et Olson, 1992 by Peter W. Houde & Storrs L. Olson, 1992.[{{Cite journal|author=Peter W. Houde & Storrs L. Olson |year=1992 |title=A Radiation of Coly-like Birds from the Eocene of North America (Aves: Sandcoleiformes New Order) |url=http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global_owl_project/descriptions/Fossil_owls/Houde%20and%20Olson%201982.pdf |journal=In Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb. Ed: Jonathan J. Becker, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series |volume=36 |pages=137–160 }}]
| |
Villetus grandis [
]|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 14-16
|
|
Described in the Scolopacidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský 2002,[ this is the type species of the new genus.]
| |
Villetus waltoni [
]|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
|
Late Eocene
|
MP 14-16
|
|
Described in the Scolopacidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský 2002.
| |
