Somateria gravipes Harrison 1979 (eider)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: C. J. O. Harrison. 1979. Birds of the Cromer Forest Bed series of the East Anglian Pleistocene. Transactions of the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society 25(1):277-286

Belongs to Somateria according to C. J. O. Harrison 1979

Sister taxa: Somateria fischeri, Somateria mollissima, Somateria spectabilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is West Runton Freshwater Bed, which is in a Pleistocene/Holocene terrestrial sandstone in the United Kingdom

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at West Runton Freshwater Bed

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