Passerea

Passerea
Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous - Holocene, 75–0 Ma
Beautiful firetail (Stagonopleura bella)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Superorder: Neoaves
Clade: Passerea
Jarvis et al., 2014
Clades

Passerea is one the two main clades of Neoaves and the sister group of Columbea.[1]

Passerea
Otidae

Cypselomorphae (hummingbirds, swifts)


Otidimorphae

Cuculiformes (cuckoos)




Otidiformes (bustards)



Musophagiformes (turacos)






Gruae

Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin)


Gruimorphae

Gruiformes (rails and cranes)



Charadriiformes (shorebirds)





Ardeae

Aequornithes (loons, penguins, herons, pelicans, storks, etc)


Eurypgimorphae

Eurypygiformes (sunbittern, kagu)



Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)




Telluraves
Afroaves
Accipitrimorphae

Cathartiformes



Accipitriformes





Strigiformes (owls)


Coraciimorphae

Coliiformes (mousebirds)


Eucavitaves

Leptosomatiformes (cuckoo roller)


Cavitaves

Trogoniformes (trogons)


Picocoraciae

Bucerotiformes (hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes)


Picodynastornithes

Coraciformes



Piciformes









Australaves

Cariamiformes (seriamas, terror birds etc.)


Eufalconimorphae

Falconiformes (falcons)


Psittacopasserae

Psittaciformes (parrots)



Passeriformes (songbirds and kin)









Cladogram of Passerea relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014)[1] with some clade names after Yury, T. et al. (2013).[2]

References


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