Terrestrornithes
unranked clade · Livezey and Zusi 2007 · accepted · extant
1,583 descendant taxa · 3,073 fossil sites · 142 formations · 90 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Quaternary
100.5–0 million years ago
Found where
90 countries
142 rock formations
Fossil record
3,073 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 101 million years, from 100.5 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.
- Terrestrornithes was named in 2007 (Livezey and Zusi 2007) — 19 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 90 countries and 142 named rock formations.
- This group contains 1,583 named taxa, including 931 species.
- This group is not extinct — living birds belong inside it.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).