Matanas
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| Matanas enrighti Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Genus: | †Matanas Worthy et al., 2007 |
| Species: | †M. enrighti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Matanas enrighti Worthy et al., 2007
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Matanas enrighti is an extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand. It was described from fossil material (a left humerus) collected from a Saint Bathans Fauna site near Mata Creek, in the lower Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group, in the Manuherikia River valley in the Central Otago region of the South Island.
Name
[edit | edit source]The genus name is a combination of the name of Mata Creek with anas (“duck”). The specific epithet honours Jack Enright, owner of the station on which the type material was collected.[1]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Matanas at Wikispecies
- File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Matanas enrighti at Wikispecies
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