Palaeortyx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| 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

}}

File:Palaeortyx.jpg, Paris]]

Palaeortyx is an extinct genus of granivorous{{cite web|title=Palaeortyx Milne-Edwards 1869 (pheasant)|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=39345|work=Fossilworks|access-date=17 December 2021}} galliform bird that lived 28.4 to 2.588 million years ago.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 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,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.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.] Italy,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. Hungary and Romania.Villalta, J. F. (1963) "Las aves fósiles del Mioceno español". Bol. Roy. Soc. Esp. Hist. Natur. Madrid, 61(2):263–285.Jánossy, D. (1976) "Plio-Pleistocene Bird Remains from the Carpathian Basin: I. Galliformes: 2. Phasianidae". Aquila, 83(1):29–42.Jánossy, D. (1993) "Bird Remains from the Upper Miocene (MN 9) of Rudabanya (N-Hungary)". Aquila 100(1):53–70.