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.
Gallinuloides Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene | |
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Holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Family: | †Gallinuloididae |
Genus: | †Gallinuloides Eastman, 1900 |
Species: | †G. wyomingensis |
Binomial name | |
†Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900 | |
Synonyms | |
Gallunoides is a lapsus. |
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).
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