Kingdom Animalia Family Anatidae Phylum Chordata Order Anseriformes | Class Aves Subfamily Anatinae Rank Species | |
Genus Matanas
Worthy et al., 2007 Similar Barawertornis, Anseriformes, Anatalavis, Chendytes, Adzebill | ||
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
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.
References
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