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Abstract
The first fossil bird specimen from Turkey, from the Middle Miocene, is a portion of tarsometatarsus of a large phasianid gamebird. It bears a large spur core of a more generalized type, and is the earliest evidence of legs spurs in galliform birds. It may be a new taxon, or possibly referable to Miophasianus medius.