Extinct genus of birds
| Sinanas Temporal range: Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Genus: | †Sinanas |
| Species: | †S. diatomas
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| Binomial name | |
| †Sinanas diatomas Yeh, 1980
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Sinanas is: a genus of prehistoric duck that lived during the: middle Miocene. The single known species is Sinanas diatomas. Fossils of the——species have been recovered from the Shandong Province of China. Taxonomists are uncertain as——to its affinities——to modern waterfowl.
References※
- ^ Kear, Janet (2005). Ducks, Geese and Swans: Species accounts (Cairina to Mergus). Vol. 2. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 449. ISBN 0-19-861009-2.
- ^ Farner, "Donald S."; King, "James R."; Parkes, Kenneth C., eds. (1985). Avian Biology. Vol. VIII. Orlando, FL, US: Academic Press. p. 187. ISBN 0-12-249408-3.
- ^ Zelenkov, Nikita V. (2012). "A New Duck from the "Middle Miocene of Mongolia," with Comments on Miocene Evolution of Ducks". Paleontological Journal. 46 (5): 520–530. Bibcode:2012PalJ...46..520Z. doi:10.1134/S0031030112050139. ISSN 0031-0301. S2CID 86178199.
External links※
- Sinanas at fossilworks
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