Aquaterraves
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| Aquaterraves Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) – Recent | |
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| Snowy egret (Egretta thula) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Neoaves |
| Clade: | Aquaterraves Wu et al., 2024 |
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Aquaterraves is a taxon of birds, located at the base of the neoavian radiation as sister to Telluraves. The 2024 study that recovered the taxon found it to include two strongly supported branches, Aequorlitornithes (including core waterbirds Aequornithes and their relatives) and the newly established Litusilvanae (uniting Charadriiformes, Gruiformes, and Caprimulgimorphae), as well a third branch containing Columbiformes and related taxa that have had an unstable position in previous phylogenomic studies.[1]
