Chenoanas
Appearance
Chenoanas Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | †Chenoanas |
Type species | |
†Chenoanas deserta Zelenkov, 2012
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Other species | |
Chenoanas is an extinct genus of duck from the Miocene of Eurasia.
Three species have been described:
- †Chenoanas sansaniensis (Milne-Edwards 1867) (early to middle Miocene of eastern Siberia and France) - originally described as a species of Anas
- †C. deserta Zelenkov 2012 (middle Miocene of Western Mongolia)
- †C. asiatica Zelenkov & Stidham 2018 (middle Miocene of Inner Mongolia (China) and Western Mongolia)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Nikita V. Zelenkov; Thomas A. Stidham; Nicolay V. Martynovich; Natalia V. Volkova; Qiang Li; Zhuding Qiu (2018). "The middle Miocene duck Chenoanas (Aves, Anatidae): new species, phylogeny and geographical range". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (3): 309–326. doi:10.1002/spp2.1107.