Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Full reference: K. E. Campbell. 1979. The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution 118:1-203
Belongs to Tringa according to K. E. Campbell 1979
Sister taxa: Tringa antiqua, Tringa erythropus, Tringa flavipes, Tringa glareola, Tringa incana, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa nebularia, Tringa ochropus, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa solitaria, Tringa totanus, Totanus majori, Totanus totanus, Totanus scarabellii, Totanus praecursor
Type specimen: ROM 12897, a limb element (left coracoid). Its type locality is Talara Tar Seeps, which is in a Pleistocene tar horizon in Peru.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Talara Tar Seeps
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