Passerea

Passerea Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Holocene, 75–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Beautiful firetail (Stagonopleura bella)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Superorder:	Neoaves
Clade:	Passerea Jarvis et al., 2014
Clades
Otidae Gruae Ardeae Telluraves

Passerea is one the two main clades of Neoaves and the sister group of Columbea.^[1]

Passerea

Otidae Cypselomorphae (hummingbirds, swifts) Otidimorphae Cuculiformes (cuckoos) Otidiformes (bustards) Musophagiformes (turacos) Gruae Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruimorphae Gruiformes (rails and cranes) Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Ardeae Aequornithes (loons, penguins, herons, pelicans, storks, etc) Eurypgimorphae Eurypygiformes (sunbittern, kagu) Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Telluraves Afroaves Accipitrimorphae Cathartiformes Accipitriformes Strigiformes (owls) Coraciimorphae Coliiformes (mousebirds) Eucavitaves Leptosomatiformes (cuckoo roller) Cavitaves Trogoniformes (trogons) Picocoraciae Bucerotiformes (hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes) Picodynastornithes Coraciformes Piciformes Australaves Cariamiformes (seriamas, terror birds etc.) Eufalconimorphae Falconiformes (falcons) Psittacopasserae Psittaciformes (parrots) Passeriformes (songbirds and kin)

Cladogram of Passerea relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014)^[1] with some clade names after Yury, T. et al. (2013).^[2]

References

1. Jarvis, E. D.; Mirarab, S.; Aberer, A. J.; et al. (2014). "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science. 346 (6215): 1320–1331. doi:10.1126/science.1253451. PMC 4405904. PMID 25504713.
2. Yuri, T.; et al. (2013). "Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals". Biology. 2 (1): 419–444. doi:10.3390/biology2010419.