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 Carroll 1988, Feduccia and Martin 1976, Houde and Olson 1992, Lambrecht 1933, Olson 1985, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Botaurini, Eoceornis, Pikaihao, Tigriornithini

Subtaxa: Botauroides parvus

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Type: Botauroides parvus

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Spanish John's Meadow (Eocene of Wyoming)

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