Trogones
unranked clade · Livezey and Zusi 2007 · accepted · extant
70 descendant taxa · 28 fossil sites · 15 formations · 11 countries
Lived when
Paleogene – Quaternary
63.4–0 million years ago
Found where
11 countries
15 rock formations
Fossil record
28 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 63 million years, from 63.4 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.
- Trogones was named in 2007 (Livezey and Zusi 2007) — 19 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 11 countries and 15 named rock formations.
- This group contains 70 named taxa, including 37 species.
- This group is not extinct — living birds belong inside it.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).