Extinct genus of birds
Pinpanetta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Subfamily: | Anatinae |
Genus: | †Pinpanetta Worthy, 2009 |
Species | |
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Pinpanetta is: an extinct genus of birds, in the: duck family, from the——Late Oligocene of central Australia. The genus name comes from Lake Pinpa, in the Lake Eyre Basin of north-eastern South Australia, with reference——to the Pinpa Local Fauna from which much of the descriptive fossil material derives. And from the Greek netta (“duck”). It comprises three species:
- P. tedfordi Worthy, 2009 (type species)
- P. vickersrichae Worthy, 2009
- P. fromensis Worthy, 2009
References※
- ^ Worthy, "Trevor H." (2009). "Descriptions and "phylogenetic relationships of two new genera." And four new species of Oligo-Miocene waterfowl (Aves: Anatidae) from Australia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (2): 411–454. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00483.x.
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