Eoanseranas handae Worthy and Scanlon 2009 (waterfowl)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anseranatidae

Full reference: T. H. Worthy and J. D. Scanlon. 2009. An Oligo-Miocene magpie goose (Aves: Anseranatidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):205-211

Belongs to Eoanseranas according to T. H. Worthy and J. D. Scanlon 2009

See also Worthy and Nguyen 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QM F.45451, a limb element. Its type locality is Hiatus Site, which is in a Chattian terrestrial carbonate in the Carl Creek Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Hiatus Site

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