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Ephippiorhynchus

Reptilia - Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae

Taxonomy

Ephippiorhynchus was named by Bonaparte (1855). It is extant.

It was assigned to Leptoptilini by Noriega and Cladera (2008); and to Ciconiidae by Weesie (1982), Louchart et al. (2008), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Yates (2018).

Species

E. asiaticus, E. senegalensis, E. tchoufour

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1855	Ephippiorhynchus Bonaparte
1982	Ephippiorhynchus Weesie
2008	Ephippiorhynchus Louchart et al. p. 157
2008	Ephippiorhynchus Noriega and Cladera p. 598
2017	Ephippiorhynchus Clements et al.
2018	Ephippiorhynchus Worthy and Yates p. 239

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Aequornithes
—	Feraequornithes
superorder	Pelecanimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Ciconiiformes	Bonaparte 1854
family	Ciconiidae	Sundevall 1836
genus	Ephippiorhynchus	Bonaparte 1855

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ephippiorhynchus Bonaparte 1855

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Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus Latham 1790 [black-necked stork]

Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis Shaw 1800 [saddlebill]

†Ephippiorhynchus tchoufour Louchart et al. 2008

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:39:15

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:39:15

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Messinian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 7.24600 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Chad	E. sp. (192294) E. sp., E. tchoufour (59839)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Australia (Queensland)	E. asiaticus (182159)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Indonesia (Jawa Timur)	E. asiaticus (77490)