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Apodiformes

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Description

Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the treeswifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae). In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in which hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes. With nearly 450 species identified to date, they are the most diverse order of birds after the passerines.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodiformes, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1448	https://www.gbif.org/species/1448
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	39417	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39417

Rank

order

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Apodiformes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
-	Pygostylia	Chiappe 2002
-	Ornithothoraces	Chiappe and Calvo 1994
-	Ornithuromorpha	Chiappe et al. 1999
subclass	Ornithurae	Haeckel 1866
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
-	Neognathae
-	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
-	Terrestrornithes	Livezey and Zusi 2007
-	Dendrornithes
-	Anomalogonates	Garrod 1874
-	Incessores	Baird 1858
superorder	Cypselomorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Apodiformes	Peters 1940

Common Name

swift

Scientific Name

Apodiformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Apodiformes	order	belongs to Neognathae	stated with evidence	Wetmore, 1960
Apodiformes	order	belongs to Neognathae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Apodiformes	order	belongs to Aves	stated without evidence	Mayr, 2004
Apodiformes	order	belongs to Cypselomorphae	stated without evidence	Mayr, 2005
Apodiformes	order	belongs to Cypselomorphae	stated with evidence	Livezey and Zusi, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (10%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

Seglar- Och Kolibrifåglar, Hummingbirds, Swifts, Swift, Seglarfåglar, Серпокрильцеподібні, アマツバメ, Swifts And Hummingbirds, Swifts, Hummingbirds

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodiformes

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Apodi suborder	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Hemiprocni suborder	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Aegialornithidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	55.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Aegothelidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Owlet-nightjar	11	19.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Apodidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Swift	110	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Eocypselidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hemiprocnidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Jungornithidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	55.8 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Trochilidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hummingbird	10	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Eocypselus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Scaniacypselus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1940	Apodiformes Peters
1960	Apodiformes Wetmore p. 29
1988	Apodiformes Carroll
2004	Apodiformes Mayr p. 861
2005	Apodiformes Mayr p. 342
2007	Apodiformes Livezey and Zusi p. 94

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Wetmore A. (1960) A classification for the birds of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139 11, 1-37

Mayr G. (2004) Old World fossil record of modern-type hummingbirds, Science 304, 861-864

Mayr G. (2005) A new cypselomorph bird from the middle Eocene of Germany and the early diversification of avian aerial insectivores, Condor 107 2, 342-352

Livezey B. C., Zusi R. L. (2007) Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149 1, 1-95

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gill, F & D Donsker (Eds). (2016) IOC World Bird List (v 6.3). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.6.3. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

BirdLife Sverige, Taxonomikommittén (2016) Fågelordningar, version 11. http://birdlife.se/tk/fagelfamiljer/fagelfamiljelistan-i-webbformat-ver-10/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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