Querquedula integra Miller 1944 (duck)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Alternative combination: Anas integra

Full reference: A. H. Miller. 1944. An avifauna from the lower Miocene of South Dakota. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(4):85-100

Belongs to Querquedula according to P. Brodkorb 1964

See also Miller 1944 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Querquedula floridiana, Querquedula pullulans, Archeoquerquedula lambrechti

Type specimen: UCMP 37370, a set of postcrania (right coracoid). Its type locality is Flint Hill North, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Batesland Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Flint Hill North

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