List of Fossil Birds - Neornithes - Procellariiformes

Procellariiformes

The group that includes modern albatrosses, petrels and storm-petrels.

• Placement unresolved
  • Primodroma (Early Eocene)
• †Diomedeoididae
  • Rupelornis (Early Oligocene of Belgium)
  • Diomedeoides (Early Oligocene – Early Miocene of C Europe and Iran) – includes Frigidafons, may be synonym of Rupelornis
• Diomedeidae – Albatrosses
  • Murunkus (middle Eocene)
  • Plotornis (Early – Middle Miocene) – includes "Puffinus" arvernensis
  • Tydea (Early Oligocene of the North Sea basin)
  • Placement unresolved
    • Diomedeidae gen. et sp. indet. (Late Oligocene of South Carolina)
  • Extant genera present in the fossil record
    • Diomedea (Middle Miocene – Recent)
    • Phoebastria (Middle Miocene – Recent)
    • Thalassarche (Late Miocene – Recent)
• Hydrobatidae – Storm-petrels
  • Prehistoric species of extant genera
    • Oceanodroma hubbsi (Capistrano Middle/Late Miocene of Orange County, USA)
    • Oceanodroma sp.
    • Pelagodroma sp. 1
    • Pelagodroma sp. 2
• Procellariidae – Petrels
  • Argyrodyptes (San Julián Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of Chubut, Argentina)
  • Pterodromoides
  • Extant genera present in the fossil record
    • Puffinus (Early Oligocene – Recent) – includes "Larus" raemdonckii
    • Fulmarus (Middle Miocene – Recent)
    • Pachyptila (Late Miocene – Recent)
    • Calonectris (Early Pliocene – Recent)
    • "Pterodroma" (Pleistocene – Recent)
    • Procellaria
• Pelecanoididae – Diving-petrels
  • Extant genera present in the fossil record
    • Pelecanoides (Early/Middle Miocene – Recent)