Pinpanetta fromensis Worthy 2009 (waterfowl)

Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae

Full reference: T. H. Worthy. 2009. Descriptions and phylogenetic relationships of two new genera and four new species of Oligo-Miocene waterfowl (Aves: Anatidae) from Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156:411-454

Belongs to Pinpanetta according to T. H. Worthy 2009

See also Worthy and Nguyen 2020 and Zelenkov 2012

Sister taxa: Pinpanetta tedfordi, Pinpanetta vickersrichae

Type specimen: SAM P.43128, a limb element (R humerus )

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lake Pinpa (Oligocene of Australia)

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