Gallinuloides

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Gallunoides
Fossil range: Early or Middle Eocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Gallinuloididae
Genus: Gallinuloides
Species: G. wyomingensis
Binomial name
Gallinuloides wyomingensis

Gallinuloides is a prehistoric genus of primitive galliform bird. It lived about 48 mya in North America; the type specimen was found in Wyoming.