Gallinuloides
| Gallinuloides Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene | |
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| Holotype | |
| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Gallinuloididae |
| Genus: | Gallinuloides |
| Species: | G. wyomingensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gallunoides is a lapsus. | |
Gallinuloides is a prehistoric genus of primitive galliform bird. It lived about 48 million years ago in North America. The type specimen was found in a Green River Formation deposit in Wyoming.
Specimen WDC CGR−012
The former Gallinuloides prentici was eventually placed (after a brief stint in Grus) in a distinct genus Paragrus; it is no galliform but belongs to the Geranoididae (Lambrecht 1933:520).
References
- Lambrecht, Kálmán (1933): Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.
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