Matanas

Matanas enrighti
Temporal range: Early Miocene 19–16 Ma
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Matanas
Worthy et al., 2007
Species:
M. enrighti
Binomial name
Matanas enrighti
Worthy et al., 2007

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.



This page was last updated at 2024-01-26 04:18 UTC. Update now. View original page.

All our content comes from Wikipedia and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


Top

If mathematical, chemical, physical and other formulas are not displayed correctly on this page, please useFirefox or Safari