Wunketru
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Anserimorphae |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Genus: | †Wunketru De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi, 2024 |
| Species: | †W. howardae
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| †Wunketru howardae (Cracraft, 1970)
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Wunketru is an extinct genus of waterfowl from the Eocene Las Flores Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Wunketru howardae,[1] known from a partial skeleton previously classified as a species of Telmabates.[2]
Discovery and naming
[edit | edit source]The holotype, consisting of ninety mineralized bones, all somewhat distorted, such as small skull fragments, the main bones of the leg, wing, and pectoral girdle, the manubrial end of the sternum including part of the keel, a pelvis fragment, a sacrum, and a few vertebrae, was described as being similar to Telmabates antiquus by Howard (1955).[3] The fossils were named as Telmabates howardae by Cracraft (1970).[2]
Feduccia and McGrew (1974) considered T. howardae to be a junior synonym of Presbyornis pervetus.[4]
In 2024, De Mendoza, Degrange & Tambussi named and described Wunketru howardae as they found the species to be separate from Telmabates.[1]
Classification
[edit | edit source]In 2024, Wunketru was classified as a member of Anseriformes incertae sedis.[1]
References
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- ^ H. Howard. (1955). A new wading bird from the Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1710:1-25
- ^ Alan Feduccia, Paul O. McGrew (1974); A flamingolike wader from the Eocene of Wyoming. Rocky Mountain Geology; 13 (2): 49–61.
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