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Pinellas County, and Itchtucknee River, Florida. Late Pleistocene : 

 Banos de Ciego Montero, Cuba. 



Genus PALAEOCREX Wetmore 01 



Palaeocrex Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, July 

 15, 1927, p. 9. Type, by monotypy, Palaeocrex fax Wetmore. 



Palaeocrex fax Wetmore 



Palaeocrex fax Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, 

 July 15, 1927, p. 9, figs. 15-18. 



Lower Oligocene (Chadronian, Horsetail Creek facies) : Horsetail 

 Creek, Weld County, Colorado. 



Genus EOCREX Wetmore 



Eocrex Wetmore, Condor, vol. 33, No. 3, May 15, 1931, p. 107. Type, by 

 original designation, Eocrex prhmts Wetmore. 



Eocrex primus Wetmore 



Eocrex primus Wetmore, Condor, vol. 33, No. 3, May 15, 1931, p. 107, figs. 

 21-25. 



Lower Eocene ("Wasatch" formation) : Near Steamboat Springs, 

 Sweetwater County, Colorado (sec. 13, T. 24 N., R, 102 W., in 

 Cathedral Bluffs). 



Subfamily FULICINAE: Coots 



Genus FULICA Linnaeus 



Fidica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 152. Type, by subsequent 

 designation, Fulica atra Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Fulica americana Gmelin : American Coot 

 Fulica americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. r, pt. 2, 1789, p. 704. 



Modern form recorded from Upper Pliocene (Rexroad fauna) : 

 Meade County, Kansas. Pleistocene : Seminole Field, Pinellas County, 

 Bradenton, Itchtucknee River, and Haile, Alachua County, Florida; 

 Hemphill County, Texas ; San Josecito Cave, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. 

 Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, and San Pedro 

 (Palos Verdes formation), Los Angeles County, California. 



cervical vertebra, by Brodkorb, Wilson Bull., vol. 65, No. i, March (Apr. 22), 



1953, P- 50. 

 81 Subfamily allocation provisional. 



