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Anser djuktaiensis Zelenkov & Kurochkin, 2014:646

Dyuktai (River) goose (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene or early Holocene

 

Distribution

Dyuktai River, Russia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Zelenkov, N. V. and Kurochkin, E. N. (2014). Two new waterfowl species (Aves: Anseriformes) from the Upper Pleistocene of Yakutia: The first extinct species of Quaternary birds from Russia. Paleontological Journal 48(6): 645-654. [Abstract]

 

Other references:

Zelenkov, N. V. and Boeskorov, G. G. (2021). Dyuktai Goose (Anser djuktaiensis) and Hooded Crane (Grus monacha) from the Pleistocene of Central Yakutia. Doklady Biological Sciences 499: 99-102.

Nikita V. Zelenkov, Evgeny N. Kurochkin, Alexander A. Karhu & Peter Ballmann. (2008). Birds of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene from the Palaeolithic Djuktai Cave site of Yakutia, Eastern Siberia. Oryctos 7: 217-226.

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