†Tympanuchus lulli Shufeldt 1915 (pheasant)
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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 Tympanuchus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Lambrecht 1933, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956
Sister taxa: Tympanuchus cupido, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, Tympanuchus phasianellus, Tympanuchus stirtoni
Type specimen: YPM 911, a limb element (humerus). Its type locality is Hornerstown (Pleistocene), which is in a Pleistocene marine horizon in New Jersey.
Ecology: volant granivore
Distribution: found only at Hornerstown (Pleistocene)
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