Telecrex

Telecrex
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Superfamily: Phasianoidea
Family: Numididae
Genus: Telecrex
Wetmore, 1934
Species
  • Telecrex grangeri
  • Telecrex peregrinus

Telecrex is an extinct genus of birds related to guineafowl, containing two species, Telecrex grangeri (the type species) and Telecrex peregrinus.[1] T. grangeri is known from a single partial femur from Eocene deposits in Inner Mongolia,[1] while T. peregrinus was found in France.[2]

  1. ^ a b Olson, Storrs (26 April 1974). "TELECREX RESTUDIED: A SMALL EOCENE GUINEAFOWL" (PDF). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 86 (3): 246–250.
  2. ^ Mlíkovský, Jiří (1986). "A new guineafowl (Aves: Phasianidae) from the late Eocene of France". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 90A: 63–66. ISSN 0255-0091. JSTOR 41701881.

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