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Accipitriformes (New World Vultures, Hawks, and Allies), Falconiformes (Falcons), and Cariamiformes (Seriemas and Allies)

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Abstract

Sequence-based analyses do not support the monophyly of diurnal birds of prey, and even though the Cathartidae, Sagittariidae, Pandionidae, and Accipitridae form a clade in these studies, the Falconidae are usually united with the Cariamiformes, Psittaciformes, and Passeriformes. However, a clade including these four taxa is not recovered in all sequence-based analyses, and under some settings, molecular phylogenies supported a sister group relationship between the Cariamiformes and Falconiformes, which conforms much better to the fossil record than a successive branching of Cariamiformes and Falconiformes at the base of the (Psittaciformes + Passeriformes) clade. Not only do the Cariamiformes include raptorial stem group representatives, but there are also fossils of long-legged early Eocene falconiform-like birds, which may constitute a morphological link between the Falconiformes and the Cariamiformes. Early Paleogene fossils of the Falconiformes and Accipitriformes are scarce, with the oldest falconiforms being from the early Eocene of South America, whereas the first records of the Accipitriformes come from the early Eocene of Europe. The Cariamiformes, by contrast, has a fairly extensive fossil record in the Americas and Europe, even though the exact affinities of many taxa remain controversial.

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Mayr, G. (2022). Accipitriformes (New World Vultures, Hawks, and Allies), Falconiformes (Falcons), and Cariamiformes (Seriemas and Allies). In: Paleogene Fossil Birds. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87645-6_8

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