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Pseudocrypturus is a genus of extinct paleognathous bird. One species is known, Pseudocrypturus cercanaxius . It is a relative of such modern birds as ostriches . It lived in the early Eocene .
The holotype fossil is in the collection of the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History . It has catalog number USNM 336103. It was collected from the Fossil Butte Member, Green River Formation , Lincoln County, Wyoming .[3]
Taxonomy [ edit ]
Cast at Aathal Dinosaur Museum
Pseudocrypturus means false tinamou . The species name cercanaxius comes from ancient Greek words kerkion anaxios pygostyle of this species.[citation needed
^ Houde, Peter W. (1988)
References [ edit ]
Hinton, A. C.; Lang, W. D.; et al. (1996). Edwards, Marcia A. (ed.). Nomenclator Zoologicus
Houde, Peter W. (1988). "Paleognathous Birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere". Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club . 22
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