Fossil record of the Strigiformes

Family incertae sedis

Enskenia galeanoi Agnolín

Primoptynx poliotauros Mayr, Gingerich & Smith [5]

Ypresiglaux michaeldanielsi Mayr & Kitchener [8]

Heterostrigidae

Heterostrix tatsinensis Kurochkin & Dyke

Ogygoptyngidae

Ogygoptynx wetmorei Rich & Bohaska

Palaeoglaucidae

Palaeoglaux artophoron Peters
Palaeoglaux perrierensis Mourer-Chauviré

Protostrigidae

Eostrix gulottai Mayr
Eostrix martinellii Wetmore
Eostrix mimica (Wetmore)
Eostrix tsaganica Kurochkin & Dyke
“Eostrix” vincenti Harrison

Minerva antiqua (Shufeldt)
Minerva californiensis (Howard)
Minerva leptosteus (Marsh)
Minerva lydekkeri Shufeldt
Minerva saurodosis Wetmore

Oligostrix rupeliensis Fischer

Sophiornithidae

Berruornis halbedeli Mayr
Berruornis orbisantiqui Mourer-Chauviré

Palaeobyas cracrafti Mourer-Chauviré

Palaeotyto cadurcensis Mouer-Chauviré

Sophiornis quercynus Mourer-Chauviré

Strigidae

Aegolius funereus (L.)

Alasio collongensis (Ballmann)

Asio brevipes Ford & Murray
Asio ecuadoriensis Lo Coco, Agnolín & Carrión [2]
“Asio” henrici Milne-Edwards
Asio longaevus (Umanskaya)
Asio priscus Howard

Athene angelis Mourer-Chauviré
Athene cretensis Weesie
Athene cunicularia ssp. intermedia Feduccia
Athene megalopeza (Ford)
Athene noctua ssp. lunellensis Mourer-Chauviré
Athene noctua ssp. veta Jánossy
Athene trinacriae Pavia & Mourer-Chauviré
Athene vallgornerensis Guerra, Bover & Alcover [1]

Bubo binagadensis Burchak-Abramovich
Bubo bubo ssp. davidi Mourer-Chauviré
Bubo (?) florianae Kretzoi
Bubo ibericus Meijer, Pavia, Madurell-Malapeira & Alba
Bubo leakeyae Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré
Bubo lignitum Giebel
Bubo osvaldoi Arrendondo & Olson
Bubo perpasta Ballmann
Bubo scandiacus ssp. gallicus (Mourer-Chauviré)
Bubo sp. ‘Soave Cava Sud, Italy’
Bubo zeylonensis ssp. lamarmorae Mlíkovský

Glaucidium explorator Emslie
Glaucidium ireneae Pavia [3]

Intulula brevis (Ballmann)
Intulula tinnipara Mlíkovský

Margarobyas abronensis Zelenkov & Gonzáles [7]

Mioglaux debellatrix Mlíkovský
Mioglaux poirrieri (Milne-Edwards)

Miosurnia diurna Li et al. [9]

Ornimegalonyx ewingi Suárez [4]
Ornimegalonyx gigas Arredondo

Otus guildayi Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré
Otus wintershofensis (Ballmann)

Pulsatrix arredondoi Brodkorb

Strix brea Howard
“Strix” brevis Ballmann
Strix collongensis Ballman
Strix dakota A. H. Miller
Strix edwardsi (Ennouchi)
Strix intermedia Jánossy
Strix sp. ‘Ladds, USA’

Surnia capeki Jánossy
Surnia robusta Jánossy

Yarquen dolgopolae Tambussi et al.

Tytonidae

Basityto rummeli Mlíkovský

Miotyto montispetrosi Göhlich & Ballmann

Necrobyas arvernensis (Milne-Edwards)
Necrobyas harpax Milne-Edwards

Nocturnavis incerta (Milne-Edwards)

Prosybris antiqua (Milne-Edwards)
Prosybris media (Mourer-Chauviré)

Selenornis henrici (Milne-Edwards)

Tyto balearica (Mourer-Chauviré)
Tyto balearica ssp. cyrneichnusae Louchart
Tyto campiterrae Jánossy
Tyto gigantea Ballmann
Tyto jinniushanensis Hou
Tyto maniola Súarez & Olson [6]
Tyto mourerchauvireae Pavia
Tyto robusta Ballmann
Tyto sanctialbani (Lydekker)

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References:

[1] Carmen Guerra; Pere Bover; Josep Antoni Alcover: A new species of extinct little owl from the Pleistocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands). Journal of Ornithology 153(2): 347-354. 2012
[2] Gastón E. Lo Coco; Federico L. Agnolín; José Luis Román Carrión: Late Pleistocene owls (Aves, Strigiformes) from Ecuador, with the description of a new species. Journal of Ornithology 161: 713-721. 2020
[3] Marco Pavia: 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. 2020
[4] William Suárez: Remarks on extinct giant owls (Strigidae) from Cuba, with description of a new species of Ornimegalonyx Arrendondo. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 140(4): 387-392. 2020
[5] Gerald Mayr; Philip D. Gingerich; Thierry Smith: Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi: 10.1080/ 02724634.2020.1769116. 2020
[6] William Súarez; Storrs L. Olson: Systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae). Zootaxa 4830(3): 544-564. 2020
[7] Nikita V. Zelenkov; Soraida F. Gonzáles: A new extinct species of Margarobyas (Strigiformes) and the evolutionary history of the endemic Cuban bare-legged owl (M. lawrencii). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1995869. 2021
[8] G. Mayr; A. C. Kitchener: Early Eocene fossil illuminates the ancestral (diurnal) ecomorphology of owls and documents a mosaic evolution of the strigiform body plan. Ibis. doi: 10.1111/ibi.13125. 2022
[9] Z. Li, T. A. Stidham; X. Zheng; Y. Wang; T. Zhao; T. Deng; Z. Zhou: Early evolution of diurnal habits in owls (Aves, Strigiformes) documented by a new and exquisitely preserved Miocene owl fossil from China. PNAS 119: e2119217119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2119217119. 2022

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edited: 18.09.2023