Reptilia - Galliformes - Odontophoridae

Full reference: A. H. Miller. 1944. An avifauna from the lower Miocene of South Dakota. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(4):85-100

Parent taxon: Odontophorinae according to P. Brodkorb 1967

See also Miller 1944 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Caccabis, Callipepla, Colinus, Cyrtonyx, Nanortyx, Odontophorus, Oreortyx, Ptilopachinae

Subtaxa: Miortyx aldeni Miortyx teres

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Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Flint Hill North (Miocene of South Dakota)

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