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Neochen debilis

Neochen debilis is an extinct species of goose from the Middle Pleistocene Belgrano Formation of Argentina. Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino described the species from a tarsometatarsus discovered in La Plata. It was smaller than the extant Orinoco goose.

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Neochen debilis
Temporal range: Mid Pleistocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Neochen
Species:
N. debilis
Binomial name
Neochen debilis
(Ameghino 1891)
Synonyms
  • Chenalopex debilis Ameghino 1891

Neochen debilis is an extinct species of goose from the Middle Pleistocene Belgrano Formation of Argentina. Argentine paleontologist Florentino Ameghino described the species from a tarsometatarsus discovered in La Plata.1 It was smaller than the extant Orinoco goose.2

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  1. Agnolin, 2006, p.93
  2. Ameghino, F. (1891) Enumeración de las aves fósiles de la República Argentina. Rev. Arg. Hist. Nat., 1: 441-453.

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