Palaeophasianus is an extinct genus of flightless Geranoidid birds that lived in North America during the Eocene period. Robert Wilson Shufeldt classified Palaeophasianus as a galliform when he described it in 1913.[ However it was transferred to Cracidae in 1964 by Pierce Brodkorb,][ while Joel Cracraft in 1968 placed it in Gruiformes.]
The only species in this genus is P. meleagroides,[
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