Sandcoleidae

Sandcoleidae
Temporal range: Danian–Ypresian
Skull of Sandcoleus copiosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Coraciimorphae
Order: Coliiformes
Family: †Sandcoleidae
Houde and Olson, 1992
Genera

†Anneavis
†Sandcoleus
†Eoglaucidium
†Tsidiiyazhi[1]

Sandcoleidae is an extinct family of birds in the order Coliiformes (mousebirds). Fossils of this family have been found in Denmark and the United States. The group may be paraphyletic[2] and is sometimes placed in the separate order Sandcoleiformes.[3]

  1. ^ Daniel T. Ksepka; Thomas A. Stidham; Thomas E. Williamson (2017). "Early Paleocene landbird supports rapid phylogenetic and morphological diversification of crown birds after the K–Pg mass extinction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114 (30): 8047–8052. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114.8047K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1700188114. PMC 5544281. PMID 28696285.
  2. ^ Haaramo, Mikko. "SANDCOLEIFORMES". Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Fossilworks: Sandcoleidae".