Awengkere magnanatis Worthy and Yates 2018 (duck)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: T. H. Worthy and A. M. Yates. 2018. A review of the smaller birds from the late Miocene Alcoota local faunas of Australia with a description of a new anatid species. Proceedings of the 9th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, 9:221-252

Belongs to Awengkere according to T. H. Worthy and J. M. T. Nguyen 2020

See also Worthy and Yates 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NTM P.4281, a limb element (R tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Alcoota (incl. Rochow) Locality, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in the Waite Formation of Australia.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Alcoota (incl. Rochow) Locality

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