Palaeortyx is an extinct genus of granivorous[1] galliform bird that lived 28.4 to 2.588 million years ago.

[2] It lived from the early Eocene to the early Pliocene, and may be a phasianid or odontophorid.

It is known from several fossils found in Germany, France,[3][4] Italy,[5] Hungary and Romania.

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