Order Turniciformes Sibley and Ahlquist 1990 (buttonquail)
Parent taxon: Charadriimorphae according to B. C. Livezey and R. L. Zusi 2007
Sister taxa: Gruiformes, Morsoravis, Ralliformes
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Turniciformes in the database