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 | | Charadriiformes, Burhinidae, Charadriidae, Haematopodidae, Recurvirostridae, Jacanidae, Scolopacidae, Glareolidae, Laridae, Alcidae, and allies. |
 | | Charadriiformes is a diverse assemblage of forms which may constitute the wellspring of the Tertiary neornithine adaptive radiation, although the phylogenetic position of this order and its transitional-mosaic forms from the terminal Cretaceous/Paleocene-Eocene period ("graculavids" sensu Olson 1985), vis-a-vis the neognathous neornithines, remains uncertain. |
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