Thecladogram of theTelluraves shown below is based on the study by Josefin Stiller and collaborators published in 2024.[5] The species numbers are taken from the December 2023 version of the list maintained byFrank Gill,Pamela C. Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of theInternational Ornithological Committee (IOC). This list includes the Cathartiformes (New World vultures) in the order Accipitriformes.[6]
The fossil record of Falconiformessensu stricto is poorly documented. The only stem-falcons that have mostly complete remains areMasillaraptor parvunguis andDanielsraptor phorusrhacoides, while the other taxaStintonornis mitchelli andParvulivenator watteli are known from fragmentary remains.[7] Mayr (2009) noted the similarity ofMasillaraptor to the seriemas. One study from Wang et al. (2012) using 30 nuclear loci from 28 taxa found Falconidae and Cariamidae being sister taxa to each other.[8] This has, however, not been supported by the latest majorneoavianphylogenetic studies.[2][3][9][10][11][12][13] A 2022 study recovers masillaraptorids as true falcons.[14]
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