This article is about the extinct bird species. For other uses, see Turkey (disambiguation).
California turkey
Temporal range: Pleistocene - Early Holocene
Skeleton on display in the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Galliformes
Family:
Phasianidae
Genus:
Meleagris
Species:
†M. californica
Binomial name
†Meleagris californica
(Miller, 1909)
The Californian turkey (Meleagris californica) is an extinct species of turkey that lived during the Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs in California. It has been estimated that the Californian turkey went extinct about 10,000 years ago.[1]
Restoration
Fossil evidence indicates that the Californian turkey was stockier than the wild turkey of the eastern United States, with a shorter, wider beak, but was largely similar otherwise. It is a very common fossil in the La Brea Tar Pits.[2]: 5 Size-wise, though, the California turkey might have been intermediate in size between the smaller southwestern turkey (Meleagris crassipes) and the larger North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).[3]
The extinction of this species is thought to have been caused by a combination of drought, which would have forced turkeys to restrict their lives to areas close to water sources, and overhunting by humans who had arrived relatively recently in the region.[2]: 52
This species was originally described as a type of peafowl by Miller in 1909 and placed in the genus Pavo with that bird.[2]: 3 Years later he reclassified it as an intermediate between the Indian peafowl and the ocellated turkey. But it eventually was seen as a close relative of modern extant wild turkeys.
^California Department of Fish and Game. Wild Turkey Guide 2005 Archived 2010-10-08 at the Wayback Machine.
^ abcBocheński, Zbigniew M.; Campbell, Kenneth E. Jr. (2006-11-10). "The Extinct California Turkey, Meleagris californica, from Rancho La Brea: Comparative Osteology and Systematics". Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 509 (509): 1–92. doi:10.5962/p.214385. eISSN 0459-8113. S2CID 33771032.
^"Wild Turkey a Calif native". creagrus.home.montereybay.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
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