Gallinuloides
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| Gallunoides Fossil range: Early-middle Eocene |
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| Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900 |
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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.
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).
[edit] References
- Lambrecht, Kálmán (1933): Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.
[edit] External links
- Specimen MCZ 342221. Aquatint by Sarah Montani. Retrieved 2007-MAY-22.
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