Family Rallidae Vigors 1825 (rail)
PaleoDB taxon number: 39513
Parent taxon: Gruiformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Anisolornis, Aramidae, Asiavis, Eurypygae, Grues, Gruidae, Heliornithidae, Messelornithidae, Psophiidae
Subtaxa: Amaurornis, Aphanapteryx, Aphanocrex, Aramides, Atlantisia, Coturnicops, Creccoides, Crex, Dryolimnas, Eocrex, Erythromachus, Fulica, Fulicinae, Gallinula, Gallinulinae, Gallirallus, Gypsornis, Hapalocrex, Hovacrex, Ibidopsis, Laterallus, Latipons, Lewinia, Microtribonyx, Mundia, Nesoclopeus, Nesolimnas, Palaeorallus, Paraortygometra, Pardirallus, Parvirallus, Pleistorallus, Porphyrio, Porzana, Rallina, Rallinae, Rallus, Tribonyx, Vitirallus, Wanshuina, Youngornis, Zapornia
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore