Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1924. Fossil birds from southeastern Arizona. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 64(5):1-18

Belongs to Dendrocygna according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Brodkorb 1964, Lambrecht 1933, Wetmore 1924, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Dendrocygna arborea, Dendrocygna arcuata, Dendrocygna autumnalis, Dendrocygna bicolor, Dendrocygna eytoni, Dendrocygna guttata, Dendrocygna javanica, Dendrocygna viduata

Type specimen: USNM 10547, a limb element (USNM 10547). Its type locality is Benson, south, which is in a Neogene terrestrial horizon in Arizona.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Benson, south

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