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Shiriyanetta hasegawai Watanabe & Matsuoka, 2015

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Shiriya area (=Shiriya-Saki), Honshu, Japan

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Watanabe, Junya and Matsuoka, Hiroshige. (2015). Flightless diving duck (Aves, Anatidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, Northeast Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(6): e994745. [Abstract]

 

Other references:

Watanabe, Junya. (2017). Quantitative discrimination of flightlessness in fossil Anatidae from skeletal proportions. The Auk 134(3): 672-695.

Watanabe, Junya et al. (2020). Pleistocene seabirds from Shiriya, northeast Japan: systematics and oceanographic context. Historical Biology 32(5): 671-729. [Abstract]

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/babys-got-quack/

 

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