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Dunstanetta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Aves

Family
  
Anatidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Anseriformes

Species
  
D. johnstoneorum

Similar
  
Anatalavis, New Zealand, Barawertornis, Biziura, Chendytes

Dunstanetta johnstoneorum or Lockhart's Duck is a genus and species of extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand. It was described from fossil material (a distal left humerus) collected from a Saint Bathans Fauna site on Home Hills Station, in the lower Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group, in the Manuherikia River valley in the Central Otago region of the South Island. The genus name refers to the Dunstan Range, the mountains of which overlook the fossil site. The specific epithet honours Ann and Euan Johnstone of Home Hills Station.

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Dunstanetta Wikipedia