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Genus PALAEOCREX Wetmore.i 



Palaeocrex Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, No. 2, July 15, 

 1927, 9. Type, by monotypy, Palaeocrex fax Wetmore. 



Palaeocrex fax Wetmore. 



Palaeocrex fax Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, No. 2, 

 July 15, 1927, 9, figs. 15-lS. 



Oligocene (Chadron): Weld County, Colorado. 



Genus EOCREX Wetmore. 



Eocrex Wetmore, Condor, XXXIII, No. 3, May 15, 1931, 107. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Eocrex primus Wetmore. 



Eocrex primus Wetmore. 



Eocrex primus Wetmore, Condor, XXXIII, No. 3, May 15, 1931, 107, 

 figs. 21-25. 



Eocene (Wasatch) : Near Steamboat Springs, Sweetwater County, Colorado 

 (Sec. 13, T. 24 N., R. 102 W., in Cathedral Bluffs). 



Subfamily FULICINAE. Coots. 



Genus FULICA Linnaeus. 



Fulica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 175S, 152. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Fulica atra Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Fulica minor Shufeldt. 



Fulica minor Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., XXV, No. 297, Sept., 1S91, 820. 

 Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Fulica americana Gmelin. American Coot. 



Fulica americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 704. 



Modern form recorded from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Bradenton, and 

 Itchtucknee River, Florida; Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



1 Subfamily allocation provisional. 



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