Branta woolfendeni Bickart 1990 (goose)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: K. J. Bickart. 1990. The birds of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Big Sandy Formation, Mohave County, Arizona. Ornithological Monographs 44:1-72

Belongs to Branta according to K. J. Bickart 1990

Sister taxa: Branta bernicla, Branta canadensis, Branta dickeyi, Branta esmeralda, Branta howardae, Branta hutchinsii, Branta hylobadistes, Branta hypsibata, Branta leucopsis, Branta propinqua, Branta ruficollis, Branta sandvicensis

Type specimen: F:AM 20888, a limb element (right tarsometatarsus)

Ecology: volant folivore-granivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP V-99563 (Miocene to Miocene of California)

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