page_title: List of fossil bird genera
section_title: Cariamiformes
hierarchical_section_title: List of fossil bird genera / Neornithes / Cariamiformes
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Fossil of Salmila, an extinct bird- Took the photo at Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt
context_page_description: Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not. For the purposes of this article, a 'bird' is considered to be any member of the clade Aves in the broadest sense. Some dinosaur groups which may or may not be true birds are listed below under Proto-birds.
  This page contains a listing of prehistoric bird taxa only known from completely fossilized specimens. These extinctions took place before the Late Quaternary and thus took place in the absence of significant human interference. While the earliest hominids had been eating birds and especially their eggs, human population and technology was simply insufficient to seriously affect healthy bird populations until the Upper Paleolithic Revolution. Rather, reasons for the extinctions listed here are stochastic abiotic events such as bolide impacts, climate changes due to orbital shifts, mass volcanic eruptions etc.
context_section_description: †Itaboravis elaphrocnemoides Mayr, Alvarenga & Clarke 2011
  †Walbeckornis creber Mayr 2007
  †Qianshanornithidae Mayr et al. 2013
  †Qianshanornis rapax Mayr et al. 2013
  †Salmilidae Mayr 2002  
  †Salmila robusta Mayr 2000
  †Ameghinornithidae Mourer-Chauviré 1981
  †Strigogyps Gaillard 1908 [Aenigmavis Peters 1987; Ameghinornis Mourer-Chauviré 1981; Eocathartes Lambrecht 1935 non Wetmore 1944; Geiseloceros Lambrecht 1935]
  †S. dubius Gaillard 1908
  †S. robustus (Lambrecht 1935) [Eocathartes robustus Lambrecht 1935; Geiseloceros robustus Lambrecht 1935] (middle Eocene of Germany)
  †S. sapea (Peters 1987) [Aenigmavis sapea Peters 1987; Ameghinornis minor Mourer-Chauviré 1981]
  †Bathornithidae Wetmore 1933
  †Eutreptornis uintae Cracraft 1971 (Uinta Late Eocene of Ouray Agency, US)
  †Neocathartes grallator (Wetmore 1944) Wetmore 1950 [Eocathartes Wetmore 1944 non Lambrecht 1935; Eocathartes grallator Wetmore 1944; Bathornis grallator (Wetmore 1944) Olson 1985] (Late Eocene)
  †Paracrax Brodkorb 1964 (Early/middle Oligocene of Gerry's Ranch, US – Brule Late Oligocene of South Dakota, US)
  †P. antiqua (Marsh 1871) Cracraft 1971 [Meleagris antiquus Marsh 1871; Oligocorax mediterraneus (Shufeldt 1915); Phalacrocorax mediterraneus Shufeldt 1915]
  †P. wetmorei Cracraft 1968
  †P. gigantea Cracraft 1968
  †Bathornithidae gen. nov. (Early – middle Oligocene of C US) – formerly Bathornis celeripes Wetmore 1933 and B. cursor Wetmore 1933
  †Bathornis Wetmore 1927 (Early Oligocene – Early Miocene of C US)
  †B. minor Cracraft 1971
  †B. veredus Wetmore 1927 [Palaeogyps prodromus Wetmore 1927] (Early Oligocene of WC North America)
  †B. fax (Wetmore 1927) Cracraft 1968  [Palaeocrex fax Wetmore 1927]
  †B. geographicus Wetmore 1942
  †B. fricki Cracraft 1968
  †Idiornithidae Brodkorb 1965 [Orthocnemidae]
  †Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards 1892 [Idiornis Oberholser 1899; Orthocnemus Milne-Ewards 1892 non Jekel 1854] (middle Eocene of Messel, Germany –? Quercy Phosphorites middle Oligocene of Quercy, France)
  †I. cursor (Milne-Edwards 1892) Oberholser 1899 [Orthocnemus cursor Milne-Edwards 1892; Orthocnemus major Milne-Edwards 1892; Idiornis major (Milne-Edwards 1892) Oberholser 1899]
  †I. gallicus (Milne-Edwards 1892) Oberholser 1899 [Filholornis gravis Milne-Edwards 1892; Orthocnemus gallicus Milne-Edwards 1892; Agnopterus gallicus (Milne-Edwards 1892) Mlíkovský 2002]
  †I. gracilis (Milne-Edwards 1892) Mourer-Chauviré 1983 [Elaphrocnemus gracilis Milne-Edwards 1892; Agnopterus gracilis (Milne-Edwards 1892) Mlíkovský 2002]
  †I. minor (Milne-Edwards 1892) Oberholser 1899 [Orthocnemus minor Milne-Edwards 1892; Agnopterus minor (Milne-Edwards 1892) Mlíkovský 2002]
  †D. anthracinus (Mayr 2002) Mourer-Chauviré 2013 [Idiornis anthracinus Mayr 2002]
  †D. tuberculata (Peters 1995) Mourer-Chauviré 2013 [Idiornis tuberculata Peters 1995]
  †D. gaillardi (Cracraft 1973) Mourer-Chauviré 2013 [Idiornis gaillardi Cracraft 1973]
  †D. itardiensis (Mourer-Chauviré 1983) Mourer-Chauviré 2013 [Idiornis itardiensis Mourer-Chauviré 1983; Agnopterus itardiensis (Mourer-Chauviré 1983) Mlíkovský 2002]
  †Talantatos Reichenbach 1852 [Elaphrocnemus Milne-Edwards 1892; Filholornis Milne-Edwards 1892] (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of France)
  †T. bordkorbi (Mourer-Chauviré 1983) Mlíkovský 2002 [Elaphrocnemus bordkorbi Mourer-Chauviré 1983]
  †T. crex (Milne-Edwards 1892) [Elaphrocnemus crex Milne-Edwards 1892]
  †T. phasianus (Milne-Edwards 1892) [Elaphrocnemus phasianus Milne-Edwards 1892; Filholornis debilis Milne-Edwards 1892; Filholornis paradoxa Milne-Edwards 1892]
  †T. fossilis (Giebel 1847) Reichenbach 1852 [Tantalus fossilis Giebel 1847; Orthocnemus major Milne-Edwards 1892; Idiornis major (Milne-Edwards 1892) Oberholser 1899; Telecrex peregrinus Mlíkovský 1989b]
  †T. proudlocki (Harrison & Walker 1979) Mlíkovský 2002 [Percolinus proudlocki Harrison & Walker 1979]
  †Gypsornis Milne-Edwards 1869 [Percolinus Harrison & Walker 1977] (Montmartre Late Eocene of Montmartre, France)
  †G. cuvieri Milne-Edwards 1869
  †G. venablesi (Harrison & Walker 1977) Mlíkovský 2002 [Percolinus venablesi Harrison & Walker 1977]
  †Propelargus Lyde
caption: Salmila
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