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Chenoanas

Chenoanas is an extinct genus of duck from the Miocene of Eurasia.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Chenoanas
Type species
Chenoanas deserta
Zelenkov, 2012
Other species
  • C. asiatica
    Zelenkov et al., 20181
  • C. sansaniensis
    (Milne-Edwards, 1867)1

Chenoanas is an extinct genus of duck from the Miocene of Eurasia.

Three species have been described:

  • Chenoanas sansaniensis (Milne-Edwards 1867) (early to middle Miocene of eastern Siberia and France) - originally described as a species of Anas
  • C. deserta Zelenkov 2012 (middle Miocene of Western Mongolia)
  • C. asiatica Zelenkov & Stidham 2018 (middle Miocene of Inner Mongolia (China) and Western Mongolia)
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References

References

  1. Nikita V. Zelenkov; Thomas A. Stidham; Nicolay V. Martynovich; Natalia V. Volkova; Qiang Li; Zhuding Qiu (2018). "The middle Miocene duck Chenoanas (Aves, Anatidae): new species, phylogeny and geographical range". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (3): 309–326. Bibcode:2018PPal....4..309Z. doi:10.1002/spp2.1107.