Descriptions of all fossil Strigiformes (1 Viewer)

Fred Ruhe · Sep 24, 2020

In 2007 I was asked to compile a list of fossil Owls for the 2007 Owl Conference in Groningen, the Netherlands. This project was ment to supply everybody who attended the conference with a CD on which original description of all the extant and fossil Owls were to be found. David H. Johnson, the director of the global owl project, asked me for the list and papers of the fossil Owls.

Our results can be found on:

A.E. Sieradzki, David H. Johnson, Pauld Radley, Deanne P. Lewis and Fred Ruhe.

Original literature describing the entire Order of Strigiformes (extant and fossil Genera, species and subspecies) 1758 - 2007

http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/index.html

Well, that was a long time ago. Now more fossil Owls are described.

In this thread I will try to update the list of fossil birds. I will add newly described taxa every now and then, the list is to long to do it in one go. I will give the link to a free paper or ipload a pdf. The starting date will be September 18th 2007.

Hoping you will like it,

Enjoy,

Fred

Fred Ruhe · Sep 24, 2020

Parvordo TYTONIDA
Familia Tytonidae Mathews, 1912.
Subfamilia Selenornithinae Mourer-Chauviré, 1987.
Genus Selenornis Mourer-Chauviré, 1987

Selenornis steendorpensis G. Mayr, 2009
Gerald Mayr, 2009
A Small Loon and a New Species of Large Owl from the Rupelian of Belgium (Aves: Gaviiformes, Strigiformes)
Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 83: 247-254
DOI 10.1007/s12542-009-0019-3

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 24, 2020

Subfamilia Tytoninae Mathews, 1912
Genus Miotyto Brodkorb, 1970
Miotyto montispetrosi Göhlich et Ballmann, 2013

Ursula B. Göhlich & Peter Ballmann, 2013
A New Barn Owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae) from the Middle Miocene of the Nördlinger Ries (Germany) with Remarks on the History of the Owls
Paleontological Research 2013: 103-122
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...ory-of-the-owls.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Genus Tyto Billberg, 1828
Tyto richae Pavia, Manegold et Haarhof, 2015
Marco Pavia, Albrecht Manegold & Pippa Haarhof, 2015
Early Pliocene Owls from Langebaanweg, South Africa, with First Evidence of the Genus Athene South of the Sahara and the Description of a New Species of Tyto
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (4): 815–828
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app60/app000772014.pdf

Tyto cravesae Suárez et Olson, 2015
William Suárez Duque & Storrs Lovejoy Olson, 2015
Systematics and Distribution of the Giant Fossil Barn Owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)
Zootaxa 4020(3): 533-553
https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27475

Tyto maniola Suárez et Olson, 2020
William Suárez Duque & Storrs Lovejoy Olson, 2020
Systematics and Distribution of the Living and Fossil Small Barn Owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)
ZooTaxa 4830: 544-564

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 26, 2020

Parvordo STRIGIDA
Famila Incertae Sedis
Genus Primoptynx G. Mayr, Gingerich et Smith, 2020
Primoptynx poliotauros G. Mayr, Gingerich et Smith, 2020

Gerald Mayr, Philip D. Gingerich & Thierry Smith, 2020
Skeleton of a New Owl from the Early Eocene of North Amerika (Aves, Strigiformes) with an Accipitrid-like Foot Morphology
Journal of Vertebrate Paleonrologt e1769116

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 26, 2020

Familia Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933
Genus Eostrix Brodkorb, 1971
Eostrix gulottai G. Mayr, 2016

Gerald Mayr, 2016
The World’s Smallest Owl, the Earliest Unambigouus Charadriiform Bird, and Other Avian Remains fron the Early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA)
Paläontologische Zeitschrift 90: 747-763

Eostrix tsaganica Kurochkin et Dyke, 2011

Evgeney Nikolayevic Kurochkin & Gareth John Dyke, 2011
The First Fossil Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a Review of the Fossil Record of Strigiformes
Paleontological Journal 45: 445-458

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 26, 2020

Genus Oligostrix Fischer, 1983
?Oligostrix bergeri De Pietri, Mourer-Chauviré, Menkveld-Gfeller, Meyer et Costeur, 2013

Vanessa De Pietri, Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller, Christian A. Meyer & Loïc Costeur, 2013
An Assessment of the Cenozoic Avifauna of Switserland, with a Description of Two Fossil Owls (Aves, Strigiformes)
Swiss Journal of Geosciences 106: 187-197
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...es-Strigiformes.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Familia Heterostrigidae Kurochkin et Dyke, 2011
Evgeney Nikolayevic Kurochkin & Gareth John Dyke, 2011
The First Fossil Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a Review of the Fossil Record of Strigiformes
Paleontological Journal 45: 445-458

Genus Aurorornis Panteleyev, 2011
Aurorornis taurica Panteleyev, 2011

Andrei V. Panteleyev, 2011
The First Remains of Birds from the Paleogene of The Crimea
In: M. S. Batashev, N. P. Makarov & N. V. Martynovich (eds) 2011: 84-91 (in Russian and English, FR)

Genus Heterostrix Kurochkin et Dyke, 2011
Heterostrix tatsinensis Kurochkin et Dyke, 2011

Evgeney Nikolayevic Kurochkin & Gareth John Dyke, 2011
The First Fossil Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a Review of the Fossil Record of Strigiformes
Paleontological Journal 45: 445-458

Fred Ruhe · Sep 26, 2020

Familia Strigidae Leach, 1820
Subfamilia Surniinae C. L. J. L. Bonaparte,1838
Genus Aegolius Kaup, 1829
Aegolius martae Pavia, 2008

Marco Pavia, 2008
The Evolution Dynamics of the Strigiformes in the Mediterranean Islands with the Description of Aegolius martae n. sp. (Aves, Strigidae)
Quaternary International 182: 80-89
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/301869733.pdf

Aegolius gradyi Olson, 2012

Storrs Lovejoy Olson, 2012
A New Species of Small Owl of the Genus Aegolius (Aves: Strigidae) from the Quaternary Deposits of Bermuda
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125: 97-105

Genus Asphaltoglaux Campbell et Bocheński, 2012
Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. & Zbigniew M. Bocheński, 2012
Two New Late Pleistocene Owls from Rancho la Brea, California
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 707-721
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app58/app20110125.pdf

Asphaltoglaux cecileae Campbell et Bocheński, 2012

Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. & Zbigniew M. Bocheński, 2012
Two New Late Pleistocene Owls from Rancho la Brea, California
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 707-721
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app58/app20110125.pdf

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 27, 2020

Genus Athene Boie, 1822
Athene inexpectata Pavia, Manegold et Haarhoff, 2015

Marco Pavia, Albrecht Manegold & Pippa Haarhof, 2015
Early Pliocene Owls from Langebaanweg, South Africa, with First Evidence of the Genus Athene South of the Sahara and the Description of a New Species of Tyto
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (4): 815–828
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publi...p000772014.pdf

Athene vallgornerensis Guerra, Bover et Alcover, 2011

Carmen Guerra, Pere Bover & Josep Alcover, 2011
A New Species of Extinct Little Owl from the Pleistocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands)
Journal of Ornithology 153: 347-354

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 27, 2020

Genus Glaucidium Boie, 1826
Glaucidium baranensis Kessler, 2010

Eugen Kessler, 2010
Újeredmények a Kárpát-medence Neogén és negyedidöszaki madárvilágához III (New results with Regard to the Neogene and Quaternary Avifauna of the Carpathian Basin)
Földtani Közlöni 140: 53-72
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...-Basin-Part-III.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Glaucidium kurochkini Campbell et Bocheński, 2012

Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. & Zbigniew M. Bocheński, 2012
Two New Late Pleistocene Owls from Rabcho la Brea, California
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica on line first app20110125_acc 1-2-2012; 58: 707-721
https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publi...pp20110125.pdf

Genus Otus Pennant, 1769
Otus mauli Rando, Pieper, Alcover et Olson, 2012

Juan Carlos Rando, Harald Pieper, Josep Antoni Alcover & Storrs Lovejoy Olson, 2012
A New Species of Extinct Fossil Scops Owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean)
Zootaxa 3182: 29-42

Otus frutuosoi Rando, Alcover, Olson et Pieper, 2013

Juan Carlos Rando, Josep Antoni Alcover, Storrs Lovejoy Olson & Harald Pieper, 2013
A New Species of Extinct Scops Owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean)
Zootaxa 3647: 343-357

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 27, 2020

Genus Asio Brisson, 1760
Asio ecuadoriensis Lo Coco, Agnolin et Román Carrión, 2020

Gaston E. Lo Coco, Federico Lisandro Agnolin & Josá Luis Román Carrión, 2020
Late Pleistocene Owls (Aves, Strigiformes) from Ecuador, with the Description of a New Species
Journal of Ornithology 161; 713–721

Genus Oraristrix Campbell et Bocheński, 2010
Type species by original designation Strix brea Howard, 1933

Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. & Zbigniew M. Bocheńki, 2010
A New Genus for the Extinct Late Pleistocene Owl Strix brea Howard (Aves: Strigiformes) from Rancho La Brea, California
Records of the Australian Museum 62: 123-144

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Fred Ruhe · Sep 27, 2020

Genus Bubo Duméril, 1806
Bubo ibericus Meijer, Pavia, Madurell-Malapeira et Alba, 2017

Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer, Marco Pavia, Joan Madurell-Malapeira & David M. Alba, 2017
A Revision of Fossil Eagle Owls (Aves: Strigiformes: Bubo) from Europe and the Description of a New Species, Bubo ibericus, from Cal Guardiola (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Historical Biology 29: 822-832
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...erian-Peninsula.pdf?origin=publication_detail

This is for now the last "new species" in the list, but I will update it as soon as a new species is described.

Enjoy this all,

Fred

Fred Ruhe · Oct 17, 2020

It gives me pleasure to have this thread updated already:

Strigidae Vigors, 1825
Genus Glaucidium Boie, 1826
Glaucidium ireneae nov. sp.

Marco Pavia, 2020
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Cradle of Humankind during the Plio-Pleistocene transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)
Quaternary Science Reviews 248: Article 106532.
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106532
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106532

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Fred Ruhe · Dec 12, 2020

Again, there is an update:

Familia Strigidae Leach, 1820
Genus Ornimegalonyx Arredondo, 1958

Ornimegalonyx ewingi sp. nov.
William Suárez, 2020

Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with
description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arredondo
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 140(4) : 387-392

Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arredondo

Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club contains research on all major aspects of ornithology, particularly new species, or regions incompletely known.

bioone.org

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Fred Ruhe · May 1, 2021

This ends the Strigiformes, the next group will be the Anomalogonates.

Fred

Fred Ruhe · Dec 14, 2021

Insert after Asio ecuadoriensis Lo Coco, Agnolin et Román Carrión, 2020

Margarobyas abronensis Zelenkov et Gonzalez, 2021
Nikita V. Zelenkov & Soraida F. Gonzalez, 2021
A new extinct species of Margarobyas (Strigiformes) and the evolutionary history of the endemic Cuban bare-legged owl (M. lawrencii)
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in press
e1995869
See attachment

Fred Ruhe · Mar 29, 2022

Insert before Aegolius martae Pavia, 2008:

Genus Miosurnia Li, Stidham, and Zhou, 2022

Miosurnia diurna Li, Stidham, and Zhou, 2022
Zhiheng Li, Thomas A. Stidham, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang, Tao Zhao, Tao Deng & Zhonghe Zhou, 2022
Early evolution of diurnal habits in owls (Aves, Strigiformes) documented by a new and exquisitely preserved Miocene owl fossil from China
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119 (15): e2119217119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2119217119
See attachment 1 (thanks Laurent, I deleted the original entry and corrected it.)

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Fred Ruhe · Aug 9, 2022

Insert before family Tytonidae:

Familia Incertae Sedis

Genus Ypresiglaux Mayr et Kitchener, 2022
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener, 2022
Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan
Ibis (advance online publication)
doi: 10.1111/ibi.13125

Transfer Eostrix gulottai Mayr, 2016 to the genus Ypresiglaux Mayr et Kitchener, 2022 as Ypresiglaux gulottai (Mayr, 2016).
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener, 2022
Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan
Ibis (advance online publication)
doi: 10.1111/ibi.13125

Add Ypresiglaux michaeldanielsi Mayr et Kitchener, 2022
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener, 2022
Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan
Ibis (advance online publication)
doi: 10.1111/ibi.13125

Björn Bergenholtz · Jan 29, 2023

Fred, what about the Holocene taxon Hispaniolan Barn Owl Tyto ostologa WETMORE 1922* (in Tytonidae) ...

Is it valid, or not? Or have you just missed it?

I simply had to ask as I couldn't find it listed in this thread.

Tyrberg et al., 2022** treat it as valid.

Björn

*Wetmore, A. 1922. Remains of Birds from Caves in the Republic of Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 74 (4): 1–4. [here]
**Tyrberg, T, M Lagerqvist, E Jirle & G Asplund. 2022. UL3 (version 12). NL äldre utdöda. Namnlistan över alla världens fågelarter på svenska, arter utdöda före år 1500. Taxonomikommittén (23 September 2022). Sveriges Ornitologiska Förening – BirdLife Sverige. [here, see: "del 3. Utdöda före 1500" (meaning: Part 3, Extinct pre-1500), and note, this list is limited to Holocene Bird taxa]

Melanie · Jan 29, 2023

Is there a known fossil ancestor of Ninox albifacies?

Fred Ruhe · Jan 29, 2023

De\ar Melanie,

I noticed that the link

http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/index.html

no longer worls'and there is was. This means that I have to make a new list for the fpssol Strigiformes. That will take some time.

Fred

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