''Pseudoseisuropsis'' is a genus of extinct birds in the

ovenbird The ovenbird (''Seiurus aurocapilla'') is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (biology), family (Parulidae). This bird migration, migratory bird breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America, many List of Caribbean ...

family from the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

of Argentina and Uruguay. The genus was described in 1991 based on disarticulated skeletal elements and a nearly-complete skull. Although originally believed to be closely related to the extant genus '' Pseudoseisura'', phylogenetic analyses suggested a more basal origin within the family.

Species

* ''

Pseudoseisuropsis nehuen ''Pseudoseisuropsis'' is a genus of extinct birds in the ovenbird family from the Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 y ...

'' Noriega, 1991 * '' Pseudoseisuropsis cuelloi'' Claramunt & Rinderknecht, 2005 * '' Pseudoseisuropsis wintu'' Stefanini ''et al.'', 2016

References

Furnariidae Pleistocene birds Pleistocene animals of South America {{Furnariidae-stub