Aves - Gruiformes - Gruidae
Parent taxon: Gruiformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
See also Bickart 1990, Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Emslie 1992, Harrison and Walker 1976, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Jaekel 1911, Lambrecht 1933, Livezey and Zusi 2007, Louchart et al. 2008, Mayr 2005, Mayr 2005, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Parmalee 1992, Rasmussen et al. 1987, Wetmore 1933, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1956 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Anisolornis, Aramidae, Asiavis, Bumbanipes, Bumbaniralla, Cariamae, Eurypygae, Grues, Heliornithidae, Horezmavis, Messelornithidae, Psophiidae, Rallidae, Salmilidae
Subtaxa: Antigone Balearicinae Bugeranus Geranopsis Gruinae Grus Leucogeranus Palaeogrus Pliogrus Protogrus
Type: Grus
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Canada (1: Nunavut), East Timor (1), Egypt (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (34: Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Blancan of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)
• Pliocene of South Africa (1), United States (2: Idaho, North Carolina)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Kansas)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), United States (8: Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Wyoming)
Total: 76 collections including 89 occurrences