Anhinga malagurala Mackness 1995 (darter)

Aves - Suliformes - Anhingidae

Full reference: B. Mackness. 1995. Anhinga malagurala, a new pygmy darter from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, North-eastern Queensland. Emu 95:265-271

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

See also Mackness 1995

Sister taxa: Anhinga anhinga, Anhinga beckeri, Anhinga grandis, Anhinga hesterna, Anhinga melanogaster, Anhinga novaehollandiae, Anhinga pannonica, Anhinga rufa, Anhinga subvolans, Anhinga walterbolesi

Type specimen: QM F23653, a limb element (carpometacarpus). Its type locality is Bluff Downs station, Main Quarry, which is in a Zanclean fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Allingham Formation of Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bluff Downs station, Main Quarry

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