Gallinuloides

{{short description|Extinct genus of birds}}

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| fossil_range = Early-middle Eocene

| image = Gallinuloides wyomingensis.jpg

| image_caption = Holotype

| genus = Gallinuloides

| parent_authority = Eastman, 1900

| species = wyomingensis

| authority = Eastman, 1900

| synonyms =

Gallunoides is a lapsus.

}}

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.Ksepka, D.T. (2009) Broken gears in the avian molecular clock: new phylogenetic analyses support stem galliform status for Gallinuloides wyomingensis and rallid affinities for Amitabha urbsinterdictensis. Cladistics 25(2):173-197. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00250.x

File:Gallinuloides fossil.jpg

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).

==References==

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Category:Eocene birds

Category:Bird genera

Category:Paleogene birds of North America

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1900

Category:Green River Formation

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