Aves - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae

Full reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110

Parent taxon: Botaurinae according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Lambrecht 1933, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Botaurini, Botauroides, Pikaihao, Tigriornithini

Subtaxa: Eoceornis ardetta

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Type: Eoceornis ardetta

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Henry's Fork (Eocene of Wyoming)

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