| Cyphornis Temporal range: Early Miocene (see text)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | †Odontopterygiformes |
| Family: | †Pelagornithidae |
| Genus: | †Cyphornis Cope, 1894 |
| Species: | †C. magnus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cyphornis magnus Cope, 1894
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Cyphornis is a genus of the prehistoric pseudotooth birds. These were probably rather close relatives of either pelicans and storks, or of waterfowl, and are here placed in the order Odontopterygiformes to account for this uncertainty.[1]
- ^ Bourdon (2005), Mayr (2009: p. 59)