Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Psittaciformes – parrots

After Brown & Toft, 1999, and Dyke & Cooper, 2000

<==o Psittaciformes Wagler, 1827 (parrots; papukaijalinnut)
   |-- †Psittacopes lepidus Mayr & Daniels, 1998
   `--+--o †Quercypsitta Mourer-Chauviré, 1992 [Quercypsittidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1992]
      |  |-- †Q. sudrei Mourer-Chauviré, 1992
      |  `-- †Q. ivani Mourer-Chauviré, 1992
      `--+-- †Pulchrapollia gracilis Dyke & Cooper, 2000 (beautiful parrot, “graceful; gracile pretty polly”!!)
         `--o “Psittacoidea” [Psittacidae sensu tradionalis] [sensu Dyke & Cooper, 2000] (modern parrots; nykypapukaijat)
            |-- Psittacidae (parrots; papukaijat)
            `--+-- Loriidae (lories and lorikeets; lorit)
               `-- Cacaduidae (cockatoos; kakadut)

Psittaciformes incertae sedis:

    †Paleopsittacus georgei Harrison, 1982b

<==o Psittaciformes
   |?- †Precursor parvus Harrison & Walker, 1977
   |--o †Pseudasturidae Mayr, 1998a
   |  |-- †Pseudastur macrocephalus Mayr, 1998a
   |  |-- †Serudaptus pohli Mayr, 2000b
   |  `--o †Pulchrapollia Dyke & Cooper, 2000
   |     |?- †P. olsoni (Feduccia & Martin, 1976) [†“Primobucco” olsoni Feduccia & Martin, 1976]
   |     `-- †P. gracilis Dyke & Cooper, 2000 [could be jr. synon. to P. olsoni (Mayr, 2002)]
   `--+-- †Psittacopes
      |-- †Quercypsitta
      `--o “Psittacoidea” [Psittacidae sensu tradionalis] [sensu Dyke & Cooper, 2000] (modern parrots; nykypapukaijat)
         |-- Psittacidae (parrots; papukaijat)
         `--+-- Loriidae (lories and lorikeets; lorit)
            `-- Cacaduidae (cockatoos; kakadut)

Reference(s):

• Brown, D. M., & Toft, C. A., 1999: Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae).
  –Auk: Vol. 116, #1, pp. 141-157
• Dyke, G. J. & Cooper, J. H., 2000: A new psittaciform bird from the London Clay (Lower Eocene) of England.
  –Palaeontology: Vol. 43, #2, pp. 271-285
• Feduccia, A., 1980: The Age of Birds.
  –Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 1980, ix-196
• Feduccia, A., 1996: The origin and evolution of birds.
  –Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1996, xii-420
• Mayr, G., 2002: On the osteology and phylogenetic affinities of the Pseudasturidae - Lower Eocene stem-group representatives of parrots (Aves, Psittaciformes).
  –Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: Vol. 136, #4, pp. 715-729
• Olson, S. L., 1985: The fossil record of birds. 79-239.
  in Farner, D., King, J. & Parkes, K. (eds.), 1985: Avian Biology. vol VIII.
  –Academic Press, New York, 1985
• Sibley, C. G. & Monroe, J., BL., 1990: Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world.
  –Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1990, XXIV-1111