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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