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Palaeortyx

Extinct genus of birds

Extinct genus of birds

  • Palaeortyx caluxyensis
  • Palaeortyx edwardsi
  • Palaeortyx gallica
  • Palaeortyx intermedia
  • Palaeortyx major
  • Palaeortyx miocaena

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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