Australotadorna alecwilsoni 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

Belongs to Australotadorna according to T. H. Worthy 2009

See also Worthy and Nguyen 2020 and Zelenkov 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SAM P.43141, a limb element (L humerus). Its type locality is Lake Pinpa, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine claystone in the Namba Formation of Australia.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lake Pinpa

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