Taxon:Gryphoformes

Animalia Chordata Aves Gryphoformes

Gryphoformes (Ghelæ, 2011) or gryphons are chimeric birds with distinct non-wing forelimbs and hindlimbs, based on mythological gryphons and similar creatures. Wingless gryphons exist and one may be referred to as an alce. Alceoidea (gryphons that do not have wings) Hieracosphinxidae (earless alces with purely cat-like bodies and hawk- or falcon-like faces) Keythongidae (eared alces with spiky bodies) Kouticephalidae (alces with an object or non-head body part in place of the head, which cannot be definitively placed in other alce families) Minoanidae (slender, earless gryphons or alces with elaborate feather crests on their heads and necks, which do not have any kind of tuft or knot on their tails) Rachimytidae (earless, short-tailed or tailless alces with large heads which often have ridges along the top of the beak and little if any other ornamentation) Zerdalcidae (fox-like alces with ears and tufted tails) Gryphonidontoidea (gryphons with teeth) Beehekdatidae (spitting, often toothed gryphons with horns and a beak on at least one jaw, some of which may lack wings) Crucibidae (long-necked toothed gryphons with scythe claws) Cryptocerodontidae (gryphons with toothed beaks, large talons, and domed heads with horn-like structures on them) Dromaeogryphidae (gryphons with dromaeosaur-like heads, wings, and forelimbs) Hexlimbarostridae (winged gryphons with toothy beakless snouts) Jayvoridae (short-tailed toothed gryphons which commonly bear many horns and spikes) Gryphonoidea (winged gryphons without teeth) Axexidae (slender earless gryphons with long knotted tails and long curled feathers emerging from the back of the head) Carrionogryphidae (owl-faced gryphons with prominent horns and reduced forearms) Chirogryphidae (gryphons with membranous, bat- or dragon-like wings) Gryphonidae (gryphons with the head, forelegs/talons, and wings of a bird of prey, usually an eagle; and the hindquarters, tail, and ears of a feline, usually a lion) Hippogryphidae (often herbivorous gryphons with hooves and horse-like tails) Homogryphonidae (gryphons with six or more non-wing limbs) Macrocephalagryphidae (short-legged, short-tailed earless gryphons with large powerful heads and talons on all four feet) Opinicusidae (usually winged gryphons with short tails, long necks, and no ears) Pipiogryphidae (gryphons resembling songbirds, pigeons, parrots, and other "cute" birds) Pisagryphidae (Chicken-headed gryphons with fat bodies and short or no tail) Ramboidae (ape-like gryphons and alces, usually featuring mammary glands on the chest and short or nonexistent tails) Spinogryphidae (aquatic, sail-backed gryphons and alces) Unsorted Gryphoformes Cochavidae (snail-like gryphoformes with large wings compared their body) Meejeidae (bipedal gryphoformes with mammalian feet, feline ears, tiny membranous wings, and opposable thumbs which are also confused for being carnivorous and herbivorous) Ourogryphidae (raptor-like gryphoformes that has the living tail of a reptile)

Minoan Gryphon (Minoanogryphus apteryx)

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