Passerea

Passerea Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Holocene, 75–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

Beautiful firetail (Stagonopleura bella)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Neoaves
Clade:	Passerea Jarvis et al., 2014
Clades
Otidae Gruae Ardeae Telluraves

Passerea is one of the two main clades of Neoaves and the sister group of Columbea.

Cladogram of Passerea relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) with some clade names after Yury, T. et al. (2013).

Cypselomorphae (hummingbirds, swifts)