Name - Zygodactylidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1720847 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Zygodactylidae Brodkorb 1971

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• The phylogenetic relationships of the early Tertiary Primoscenidae and Sylphornithidae and the sister taxon of crown group piciform birds.
• New Birds from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation, North America.
• A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes).
• New bird remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA), including the first records of the Messelasturidae, Psittacopedidae, and Zygodactylidae from the Fisher/Sullivan site.

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