Coccyges
unranked clade · Huxley 1867 · accepted · extant
516 descendant taxa · 1,134 fossil sites · 37 formations · 69 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Quaternary
83.6–0 million years ago
Found where
69 countries
37 rock formations
Fossil record
1,134 sites
0 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 84 million years, from 83.6 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Coccyges was named in 1867 (Huxley 1867) — 159 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 69 countries and 37 named rock formations.
- This group contains 516 named taxa, including 298 species.
- This group is not extinct — living birds belong inside it.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).