Gallinuloides

Taxobox
name = "Gallunoides"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Early-middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Gallinuloididae
genus = "Gallinuloides"
genus_authority =
species = "G. wyomingensis"
binomial = "Gallinuloides wyomingensis"
binomial_authority = Eastman, 1900
synonyms ="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).

References

* Lambrecht, Kálmán (1933): "Handbuch der Palaeornithologie". Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.

External links

* [http://dino.lm.com/images/display.php?id=2760 Specimen MCZ 342221] . Aquatint by Sarah Montani. Retrieved 2007-MAY-22.