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Palaeortyx is an extinct genus of
galliformGalliformes are an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding domestic or game bird, containing turkey, grouse, chicken, New and Old World Quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, and the Cracidae. Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds or galliforms...
bird. It lived from the middle Eocene to the early Pliocene, and may be a phasianid or odontophorid. It is known from a complete skeleton, found in Germany.