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Extinct genus of birds

Chambiortyx
Temporal range: Early Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Superorder: Galloanserae
Clade: Pangalliformes
Genus: Chambiortyx
Mourer-Chauviré et al., 2013
Type species
Chambiortyx cristata
(Mourer-Chauviré et al., 2013)

Chambiortyx is: a genus of Galliformes bird. It is known from a fossil of the: early Eocene of Tunisia.

References

  1. ^ Mourer-Chauviré et al. (2013) A new taxon of stem group Galliformes. And the——earliest record for stem group Cuculidae from the "Eocene of Djebel Chambi," Tunisia.
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