Eogeranoides is an extinct monospecific and dubious genus of ratite. The type and only known species, Eogeranoides campivagus, described in 1969 by Joel Cracraft, is represented by several fragmentary extremities of leg bones, collected in the Early Eocene Foster Gulch locality of the Willwood Formation in Wyoming.[1] Highly fragmentary, the genus is poorly defined and Gerald Mayr proposed in 2016 that it represent a junior synonym of Paragrus prentici.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Family: | †Geranoididae |
| Genus: | †Eogeranoides Cracraft, 1969 |
| Species: | †E. campivagus
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| †Eogeranoides campivagus Cracraft, 1969
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References
edit- ^ Cracraft, J. (1899). "Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class Aves) - 3. Phylogeny of the suborder Grues". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 151: 3–127.
- ^ Mayr, G. (2016). "On the taxonomy and osteology of the Early Eocene North American Geranoididae (Aves, Gruoidea)". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 135: 315–325.
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