Palaeortyx

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Extinct genus of birds

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::summary Extinct genus of birds ::

| fossil_range = Middle Oligocene to Early Pleistocene | image = Palaeortyx fossil montmartre.JPG | image_caption = Palaeortyx fossil at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris | taxon = Palaeortyx | authority = Milne-Edwards, 1869 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =

  • Palaeortyx caluxyensis
  • Palaeortyx edwardsi
  • Palaeortyx gallica
  • Palaeortyx intermedia
  • Palaeortyx major
  • Palaeortyx miocaena ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Palaeortyx.jpg" caption="''Palaeortyx'' fossil, [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]], Paris"] ::

Palaeortyx is an extinct genus of granivorous galliform bird that lived 28.4 to 2.588 million years ago. It lived from the early Eocene to the early Pliocene, and may be a phasianid or odontophorid. It is known from several fossils found in Germany, France, Italy, Hungary and Romania.

References

References

  1. "''Palaeortyx'' Milne-Edwards 1869 (pheasant)". Fossilworks.
  2. Mayr, G. ''et al.'' (2006) [http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/ornithologie/palaeortyx.pdf "A nearly complete skeleton of the fossil galliform bird ''Palaeortyx'' from the late Oligocene of Germany"]. ''Acta Ornithologica'', 41(2):129–135. doi:10.3161/000164506780143852
  3. Mourer-Chauviré, C. (1992) "The Galliformes (Aves) of Phosphorites Du Quercy (France): Systematics and Biostratigraphy". ''Natur. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles County. Sci. Ser.'', 36:37–95.
  4. Göhlich, U. B. & Mourer-Chauviré, C. (2005) [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00520.x/abstract "Revision of the phasianids (aves: galliformes) from the Lower Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)". ''Palaeontology'', 48:1331–1350.]
  5. Göhlich, U. B. & Pavia, M. (2008) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255171005_A_new_species_of_Palaeortyx_%28Aves_Galliformes_Phasianidae%29_from_the_Neogene_of_Gargano_Italy "A New Species of ''Palaeortyx'' (Aves: Galliformes: Phasianidae) from the Neo-gene of Gargano, Italy]". ''Oryctos'', 7:95–10.
  6. Villalta, J. F. (1963) "Las aves fósiles del Mioceno español". ''Bol. Roy. Soc. Esp. Hist. Natur. Madrid'', 61(2):263–285.
  7. Jánossy, D. (1976) "Plio-Pleistocene Bird Remains from the Carpathian Basin: I. Galliformes: 2. Phasianidae". ''Aquila'', 83(1):29–42.
  8. Jánossy, D. (1993) "Bird Remains from the Upper Miocene (MN 9) of Rudabanya (N-Hungary)". ''Aquila'' 100(1):53–70.

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