Biology:Palaeophasianus
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Short description: Extinct genus of birds
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Family: | †Geranoididae |
| Genus: | †Palaeophasianus Shufeldt, 1913 |
| Species: | †P. meleagroides
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| †Palaeophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt, 1913
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Palaeophasianus is an extinct genus of flightless Geranoididae birds that lived in North America during the Eocene period. Robert Wilson Shufeldt classified Palaeophasianus as a galliform when he described it in 1913.[1] However it was transferred to Cracidae in 1964 by Pierce Brodkorb,[2] while Joel Cracraft in 1968 placed it in Gruiformes.[3][4]
The only species in this genus is P. meleagroides,[5][6] and it is described as a "ground-dwelling carnivore".[6] The fossil remains were found by the American Museum expedition of 1910 in Big Horn County, Wyoming, in the Willwood formation (early Eocene).[7]
References
- ↑ Shufeldt, R.W. (1913). "Further studies of fossil birds with descriptions of new and extinct species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32: 285–306.
- ↑ Brodkorb, P. (1964). "Catalogue of fossil birds Part 2 (Anseriformes through Galliformes)". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 8: 195–335. http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/uf:39709.
- ↑ Cracraft, Joel (August 1969). "Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves)". American Museum Novitates (2388). https://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/pdfs/1969b.Novitates%20Geranoididae.pdf.
- ↑ Cracraft, Joel (1968). "Reallocation of the Eocene Fossil Palaeophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt". The Wilson Bulletin 80 (3): 281–285. ISSN 0043-5643.
- ↑ Palaeophasianus at fossilworks.org (retrieved 2019-11-06)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Palaeophasianus meleagroides at fossilworks.org (retrieved 2019-11-06)
- ↑ "Fossilworks: East of Dry Camp 2 (AMNH)". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=74631.
Wikidata ☰ Q73738284 entry
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