Meleagris richmondi Shufeldt 1915 (turkey)

Aves - Galliformes - Phasianidae

Full reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110

Belongs to Meleagris according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Lambrecht 1933, Miller and DeMay 1942, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Meleagris altus, Meleagris celer, Meleagris crassipes, Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris leopoldi, Meleagris superba, Meleagris tridens

Type specimen: YPM 905, a set of postcrania (sternum). Its type locality is Mission San Jose, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial conglomerate in California.

Ecology: volant granivore

Distribution: found only at Mission San Jose

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