| Californian turkey Temporal range: Late Pleistocene – Holocene | |
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| A cast of a Meleagris californica skeleton (lower left) along with other extinct birds | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Subfamily: | Meleagridinae |
| Genus: | Meleagris |
| Species: | †M. californica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Meleagris californica | |
The Californian turkey (Meleagris californica), is an extinct species of turkey indigenous to the Pleistocene and early Holocene of California. It became extinct about 10,000 years ago.