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Anserini

Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Anserini Vigors
1986Anserini Mlíkovsky and Svec p. 262
1988Anserini Livezey and Martin p. 207
1990Anserini Bickart p. 12
1992Anserini Emslie p. 255
2001Anserini Olson and Rasmussen p. 282
2009Anserini Gonzalez et al.
2014Anserini del Hoyo et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
RankNameAuthor
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—PangalloanseraeGauthier and de Queiroz 2001
—GalloanseraeSibley and Ahlquist 1990
superorderGalloanserimorphae
orderAnseriformesWagler 1831
familyAnatidaeVigors 1825
subfamilyAnserinaeVigors 1825
tribeAnseriniVigors 1825
tribeAnseriniVigors 1825

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tr. Anserini Vigors 1825
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G. Anser Linnaeus 1758
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Anser albifrons Scopoli 1769 [greater white-fronted goose]
Anser anser Linnaeus 1758 [greylag goose]
†Anser arenosus Bickart 1990
†Anser arizonae Bickart 1990
†Anser atavus Fraas 1870
†Anser azerbaidzhanicus Serebrovsky 1940
Anser brachyrhynchus Baillon 1834 [pink-footed goose]
†Anser brumeli Milne-Edwards 1871
Anser caerulescens Linnaeus 1758 [snow goose]
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Invalid names: Chen hyperborea Pallas 1769 [synonym]
Anser canagicus Sevastianov 1802 [Emperor goose]
†Anser condoni Shufeldt 1891
†Anser cygniformis Fraas 1870
Anser cygnoid Linnaeus 1758 [Swan goose]
†Anser devjatkini Kurochkin 1971
†Anser djuktaiensis Zelenkov and Kurochkin 2014
Anser erythropus Linnaeus 1758 [lesser white-fronted goose]
Anser fabalis Latham 1787 [taiga bean-goose]
Anser indicus Latham 1790 [Bar-headed goose]
†Anser liskunae Kurochkin 1976
†Anser oeningensis von Meyer 1865
†Anser pressus Wetmore 1933
Anser rossii Cassin 1861 [Ross's goose]
†Anser scaldii Van Beneden 1873
†Anser thraceiensis Burchak-Abramovich and Nikolov 1984
Invalid names: Chen Boie 1822 [synonym]
G. Branta Scopoli 1769
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Branta bernicla Linnaeus 1758 [brant]
Branta bernicla nigricans Lawrence 1846 [brant]
Branta canadensis Linnaeus 1758 [Canada goose]
†Branta dickeyi Miller 1924
†Branta esmeralda Burt 1929
†Branta howardae Miller 1930
Branta hutchinsii Richardson 1832 [cackling goose]
†Branta hylobadistes Olson and James 1991
†Branta hypsibata Cope 1878
Branta leucopsis Bechstein 1803 [barnacle goose]
†Branta minuscula Wetmore 1924
†Branta propinqua Shufeldt 1891
Branta ruficollis Pallas 1769 [red-breasted goose]
Branta sandvicensis Vigors 1833 [nene]
†Branta woolfendeni Bickart 1990
G. †Cygnavus Lambrecht 1931
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†Cygnavus formosus Kurochkin 1968
†Cygnavus senckenbergi Lambrecht 1931
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: freshwatersubf
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: volantsubf
Diet: folivoresubf
Diet 2: granivoresubf
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 19:20:59
Modified: 2009-01-03 21:26:40
Source: subf = subfamily, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Sedinger 1997

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Holocene or 28.40000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (145 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Kazakhstan (Aktyubinskaya) Cygnavus formosus (73994)
Neogene23.03 - 2.58USA (Arizona) Branta minuscula (216972)
Early/Lower Barstovian - early Late Barstovian16.3 - 12.5USA (California) Branta woolfendeni (156738)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82USA (California) Branta sp. (59059 74629)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Bulgaria Anser thraceiensis (215935)
Late/Upper Miocene - Late/Upper Pliocene11.608 - 2.588Belgium (Antwerpen) Anser scaldi (47465)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (California) Branta sp. (19446)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Anserini indet., Anser arizonae, Branta bernicla, Anabernicula minuscula (52582)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Florida) Branta canadensis (19753)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8El Salvador Anser sp. (70118)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588USA (Idaho) Chen pressa (176409)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588USA (Florida) Anabernicula minuscula (22712)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Hungary (Barany) Anser subanser (35457)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117United Kingdom Anser albifrons (124957)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Greece (Chalkidiki) Anser anser (183123)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Egypt (Kom Ombo Plain) Anser fabalis (22508) Branta sp., Anser albifrons (22545)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (California) Branta canadensis (176037 176096) Branta hutchinsii (176098)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Malta Branta bernicla (190860)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Branta canadensis (227368)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Egypt Branta bernicla, Anser albifrons, Anser fabalis (21888)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Egypt (Kom Ombo Plain) Anser albifrons (22539)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Italy Anser albifrons (197789) Branta bernicla, Anser albifrons (197790)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Colorado) Anser sp. (152653)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (Florida) Branta canadensis, Branta dickeyi (20400)
Irvingtonian1.8 - 0.3USA (California) Branta canadensis (20327)
Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean1.8 - 0.012USA (California) Branta sp. (67490)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Indonesia (Jawa Timur) Branta ruficollis (77490)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Siracusa) Branta sp., Anser erythropus (175900)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Branta canadensis, Anser albifrons, Branta nigricans (20639)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Greece Anser albifrons (187637) Branta bernicla (199940)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Anser albifrons, Branta leucopsis (125088)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Turkmenistan Anser sp. (40695)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy Anser albifrons, Anser anser (197926) Anser sp. (197927)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Italy (Roma) Branta bernicla, Anser brachyrhynchus (44090)
Middle Pleistocene - Holocene0.774 - 0.0United Kingdom Anser anser (197163)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012Mexico (Sonora) Anser sp., Branta canadensis (20495)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Branta canadensis, Chen caerulescens (84885)
Rancholabrean (glacial)0.3 - 0.012USA (California) Branta canadensis, Anser albifrons (20624)
Rancholabrean - Holocene0.3 - 0.0USA (California) Branta canadensis, Chen caerulescens (84904)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Branta canadensis, Branta hutchinsii (154773) Branta hutchinsii (74292)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Wyoming) Branta canadensis (93277)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Wales) Anser fabalis (124954)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Branta canadensis (155393)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Crete) Anser albifrons (183124) Branta ruficollis (192948 192954)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Idaho) Branta canadensis, Anser caerulescens (20569)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Jordan Anser sp. (197945)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Canada (British Columbia) Anser albifrons (75232)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Anabernicula miniscula, Branta canadensis, Anser albifrons, Chen hyperborea, Chen rossi (190077) Anabernicula miniscula, Branta canadensis, Chen hyperborea, Branta dickeyi (44954) Branta bernicla, Branta canadensis, Anser caerulescens, Branta hutchinsii (215552) Branta canadensis (20273 192611) Branta canadensis, Anser albifrons, Chen caerulescens (120827 176102) Branta canadensis, Chen caerulescens (120829 125236 125237) Chen caerulescens (120828) Chen sp. (218989)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Branta canadensis (20595)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom Anser albifrons, Anser anser (124956) Branta bernicla (93837) Branta leucopsis (124961)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain (Santander) Branta leucopsis (125320)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Texas) Branta canadensis (85142)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain Branta leucopsis (215694)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation Anser n. sp. (194811)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Hawaii) Branta hylobadistes (89311)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Hawaii) Branta sp. (110072)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Branta canadensis, Branta hutchinsii (154771)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Branta bernicla, Branta canadensis, Branta propinqua, Anser albifrons, Chen rossii, Branta hypsibata, Chen hyperborea (93251) Branta hypsibatus, Branta canadensis, Anser condoni, Branta propinqua, Anser albifrons, Chen hyperborea (176222)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Jalisco) Chen hyperborea (192628)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Alabama) Branta canadensis (84181)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Russian Federation Anser anser (79548)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) Branta bernicla (57706 73485)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan Anser anser (193440)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Russian Federation Anser albifrons, Anser fabalis (175940) Anser sp. (194810)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Florida) Branta bernicla (195050)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Canada (Quebec) Branta bernicla, Branta canadensis (224189)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Finland Anser sp., Branta sp. (177177)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Greenland Branta leucopsis (162014 227758) Branta sp. (226353 227815 227816 227826 227828 227870 227872 227873 227874 229939 229942 229943) Branta sp., Anser brachyrhynchus (229885 229940) Branta sp., Branta bernicla (227817 227875 230120)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Canada (Nunavut) Branta bernicla, Anser caerulescens (229484) Branta bernicla, Chen caerulescens (228898) Branta sp. (228756 228920) Branta sp., Anser caerulescens (160848) Branta sp., Branta canadensis (228927 228928)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Spain Branta bernicla (194936)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Washington) Branta canadensis, Chen hyperborea (215546)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Canada (Northwest Territories) A. sp., Branta canadensis, Anser caerulescens (228921) Branta canadensis, Chen rossii, Chen caerulescens (228444) Chen caerulescens (228492)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Hawaii) Branta hylobadistes (176476) Branta sp. (110073 110074 110076)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Alaska) Branta canadensis (177178 177179)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Branta canadensis (194906 194923 194924) Branta canadensis, Chen caerulescens (194926 194927 194928) Branta canadensis, Chen caerulescens, Branta hutchinsii (194911) Branta canadensis, Chen rossii (194909 194913) Branta canadensis, Chen rossii, Chen caerulescens (194912 194914) Chen caerulescens (194910 194925) Chen rossii, Branta hutchinsii (194908) Chen rossii, Chen caerulescens, Branta hutchinsii (194907)