Australotadorna Worthy 2009 (duck)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: T. H. Worthy. 2009. Descriptions and phylogenetic relationships of two new genera and four new species of Oligo-Miocene waterfowl (Aves: Anatidae) from Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156:411-454

Parent taxon: Tadornini according to T. H. Worthy and J. M. T. Nguyen 2020

See also Worthy 2009 and Zelenkov 2012

Sister taxa: Alopochen, Cyanochen

Subtaxa: Australotadorna alecwilsoni

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Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lake Pinpa (Oligocene of Australia)

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