拟鸡科(学名:Gallinuloididae)是一类已经灭绝的泛鸡形目鸟类,生存于始新世的欧洲与北美。
分类
- 拟鸡属 Gallinuloides
- 怀俄明拟鸡 Gallinuloides wyomingensis
- 似副鹑属 Paraortygoides
- 梅塞尔似副鹑 Paraortygoides messelensis
- 瑞氏似副鹑 Paraortygoides radagasti
参考文献
- Lambrecht, Kálmán (1933): Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin.
- Dyke, Gareth J.; Gulas, Bonnie E.; Vincent, Steve, paleontologist. The fossil galliform bird Paraortygoides from the Lower Eocene of the United Kingdom. American Museum novitates ; no. 3360 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) .
- Gerald Mayr. New specimens of the early Eocene stem group galliform Paraortygoides (Gallinuloididae), with comments on the evolution of a crop in the stem lineage of Galliformes (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) ., Journal of Ornithology, January 2006, Volume 147, Issue 1, pp 31-37