Telecrex
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Superfamily: | Phasianoidea |
| Family: | Numididae |
| Genus: | †Telecrex Wetmore, 1934 |
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Telecrex is an extinct genus of birds related to guineafowl, containing two species, Telecrex grangeri (the type species) and Telecrex peregrinus.[1] T. grangeri is known from a single partial femur from Eocene deposits in Inner Mongolia,[1] while T. peregrinus was found in France.[2]
Taxonomy
The holotype and only known specimen of Telecrex grangeri,
The holotype of Telecrex peregrinus, NHMW 1988/28/1 was collected near Lalbenque in Lot, France at some point in the nineteenth century and described as a new species by Mlíkovský in 1986. A second specimen from the same deposit, NHMW 1988/28/2 was also referred to this species.[2]
Telecrex peregrinus was larger in size than Telecrex grangeri.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Olson, Storrs (26 April 1974). "TELECREX RESTUDIED: A SMALL EOCENE GUINEAFOWL" (PDF). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 86 (3): 246–250.
- ^ JSTOR 41701881.