Gallinuloides
Extinct genus of birds
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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.[1]
| Gallinuloides Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Family: | †Gallinuloididae |
| Genus: | †Gallinuloides Eastman, 1900 |
| Species: | †G. wyomingensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900 | |
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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 pangalliform but belongs to the Geranoididae (Lambrecht 1933:520).
