Aves - Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Parent taxon: Tytonidae according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Burney et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Guthrie 1992, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Meijer et al. 2013, Morgan 1994, Olson 1985, Sánchez‐Marco 2021, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Lechusa, Nocturnavis, Phodilinae, Selenornis, Tytoninae
Subtaxa: Tyto alba Tyto balearica Tyto cavatica Tyto cravesae Tyto gigantea Tyto glaucops Tyto letocarti Tyto mourerchauvireae Tyto noeli Tyto novaehollandiae Tyto ostologa Tyto perlata Tyto pollens
Ecology: volant carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (6), the Bahamas (7), Cayman Islands (2), Cuba (3), the Dominican Republic (1), East Timor (2), Ecuador (2), France (3), Greece (11), Haiti (2), Indonesia (5), Italy (2), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), New Caledonia (6), Niue (7), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (1), Portugal (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (30: California, Florida, New Mexico, Texas), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Spain (2)
• Miocene of Slovakia (1), Spain (2)
Total: 122 collections including 132 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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