Misplaced Pages

Gallinuloides

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Extinct genus of birds

Gallinuloides
Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene
Holotype
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

Gallinuloides is a prehistoric genus of pangalliform 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 pangalliform but belongs to the Geranoididae (Lambrecht 1933:520).

References

  1. Ksepka, D.T. (2009) Broken gears in the avian molecular clock: new phylogenetic analyses support stem galliform status for Gallinuloides wyomingensis and rallid affinities for Amitabha urbsinterdictensis. Cladistics 25(2):173-197. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00250.x
Genera of landfowl and their extinct allies
Pangalliformes
incertae sedis
Gallinuloididae
Paraortygidae
Quercymegapodiidae
Sylviornithidae
Galliformes
    • See below ↓
Sylviornis neocaledoniae
Galliformes
Galliformes
Megapodiidae
Alecturini
Megapodiini
Cracidae
Penelopinae
Cracinae
Cracini
Phasianoidea
    • See below ↓
Mitu mitu
Phasianoidea
Numididae
Odontophoridae
Ptilopachinae
Odontophorinae
Phasianidae
    • See below ↓
Numida meleagris
Phasianidae
Phasianidae
Rollulinae
Pavoninae
Coturnicini
Gallini
Pavonini
Polyplectronini
Phasianinae
Lophophorini
Phasianini
Tetraonini
Rollulus rouloul
Taxon identifiers
Gallinuloides wyomingensis


Stub icon

This prehistoric bird article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: