Reptilia - Galliformes - Phasianidae

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1931. The avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 85(2):1-41

Belongs to Meleagris according to A. Wetmore 1956

See also Lambrecht 1933, Wetmore 1931 and Wetmore 1940

Sister taxa: Meleagris altus, Meleagris californica, Meleagris celer, Meleagris crassipes, Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris leopoldi, Meleagris richmondi, Meleagris superba

Type specimen: USNM 12052, a limb element (tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Seminole Field, which is in a Pleistocene fluvial sandstone in Florida.

Ecology: volant granivore

Distribution: found only at Seminole Field

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