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Rallinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	135934	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=135934

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Gruiformes : Rallidae : Rallinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
-	Pygostylia	Chiappe 2002
-	Ornithothoraces	Chiappe and Calvo 1994
-	Ornithuromorpha	Chiappe et al. 1999
subclass	Ornithurae	Haeckel 1866
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
-	Neognathae
-	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
-	Terrestrornithes	Livezey and Zusi 2007
-	Telmatorae
superorder	Charadriimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Gruiformes	Bonaparte 1854
family	Rallidae	Vigors 1825
subfamily	Rallinae	Vigors 1825

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rallinae	subfamily	belongs to Rallidae	stated without evidence	Brodkorb, 1967

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

8 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Mayr. 2006. A rail (Aves, Rallidae) from the early Oligocene of Germany. Ardea 94(1):23-31

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Belgirallus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Capellirallus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Diaphorapteryx ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Great Chatham Island Rail	5	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Eulabeornis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Chestnut Rail
Euryonotus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gymnocrex genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Rails			0 Ma Extant
Palaeoaramides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pararallus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pareudiastes genus	listed (PBDB)	Moorhen			0 Ma Extant
Rallicrex ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1825	Rallinae Vigors
1940	Rallinae Wetmore p. 51
1967	Rallinae Brodkorb p. 116
1979	Rallinae Campbell
2006	Rallinae Mayr p. 24
2014	Rallinae del Hoyo et al.

References

Mayr G. (2006) A rail (Aves, Rallidae) from the early Oligocene of Germany, Ardea 94 1, 23-31

Brodkorb P. (1967) Catalogue of fossil birds: Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes), Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 11 3, 99-220

Campbell K. E. (1979) The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru, Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contribution 118, 1-203

del Hoyo J., Collar N. J., et al (2014) HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines, 1-904

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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