Gallinuloides
{{short description|Extinct genus of birds}}
{{speciesbox
| 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
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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- Lambrecht, Kálmán (1933): Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.
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Category:Paleogene birds of North America
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1900
Category:Green River Formation
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