Limicolavis Shufeldt 1915 (snipe)

Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

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: Tringinae according to O. P. Hay 1930

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

Sister taxa: Palnumenius, Pelidna

Subtaxa: Limicolavis pluvianella

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Type: Limicolavis pluvianella

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lower Willow Creek (Oligocene of Oregon)

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