Chendytes lawi Miller, 1925
Law’s diving-goose
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 720 to 350 BC
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, Loye Holmes. (1925). Chendytes, a diving goose from the California Pleistocene. The Condor 27(4): 145-147.
Other references:
Buckner, Janet C. et al. (In Press, 2017). Mitogenomics supports an unexpected taxonomic relationship for the extinct diving duck Chendytes lawi and definitively places the extinct Labrador Duck. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.008
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Guthrie, David A. (2005). Distribution and provenance of fossil avifauna on San Miguel Island. In Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium. National Park Service Technical Publication CHIS-05-01. Institute for Wildlife Studies, Arcata (pp. 35-42).
Howard, Hildegarde. (1936). A new fossil bird locality near Playa del Rey, California, with description of a new species of sulid. Condor 38(5): 211-214.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1947). Wing elements assigned to Chendytes. Condor 49(2): 76-77.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1949). Avian fossils from the marine Pleistocene of southern California. Condor 51(1): 20-28.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1955). New records and a new species of Chendytes, an extinct genus of diving geese. The Condor 57(3): 135-143.
Howard, Hildegarde. (1964). Further discoveries concerning the flightless "diving geese" of the genus Chendytes. The Condor 66(5): 372-376.
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Jefferson, G. T. (1991). A catalogue of Late Quaternary vertebrates from California. Part one; nonmarine lower vertebrate and avian taxa. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Technical Reports 5: 1-60.
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T. L. Jones, J. F. Porcasi, J. M. Erlandson, H. Dallas Jr., T. A. Wake, and R. Schwaderer. (2008). The protracted Holocene extinction of California’s flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105(11): 4105-4108.
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Morejohn, G. Victor. (1976). Evidence of the survival to recent times of the extinct flightless duck Chendytes lawi Miller. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27: 207-211.
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