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Опубликовано 2009-03-01 Опубликовано на SciPeople2009-11-10 10:48:18 ЖурналPaleontological Journal

Neogene phasianids (Aves: Phasianidae) of Central Asia: 1. Genus Tologuica gen. nov.

N.V. Zelenkov, E.N. Kurochkin / Никита Зеленков

Paleontological Journal. 2009. V. 43 (2): 208-215.

Аннотация A new genus, Tologuica, with two species (T. aurorae sp. nov. and T. karhui sp. nov.), from the Middle Miocene of the Sharga locality (western Mongolia) is described. The new genus shares some characters with the extinct genera Palaeocryptonyx, Palaeortyx, and Plioperdix and with extant Coturnix. The foot structure suggests that Tologuica resembled in ecology the European genus Palaeortyx and was probably adapted to an arboreal mode of life, in contrast to the terrestrial Coturnix and Plioperdix.