Palaeortyx
| Palaeortyx Temporal range: Middle Oligocene to Early Pleistocene | |
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| Palaeortyx fossil at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeortyx Milne-Edwards, 1869 |
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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.