Plioperdix
Extinct genus of birds
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Plioperdix is an extinct genus of phasianid that lived during the Neogene period.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | †Plioperdix Kretzoi, 1955 |
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Distribution
Plioperdix ponticus inhabited Moldova and southern Ukraine during the Zanclean and Transbaikalia and Mongolia during the Piacenzian.[1] P. africana inhabited Morocco during the Piacenzian.[2] P. hungarica is known from the Late Miocene of Hungary and Russia,[3] though its validity as a species of Plioperdix has been questioned.[4]
