Gallinuloides
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| Gallinuloides Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene
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Gallinuloides
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G. wyomingensis
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| Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900
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Gallunoides is a lapsus. |
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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.
File:Gallinuloides fossil.jpg
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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