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Issue: Vol. 5453 No. 1: 17 May 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.8
Page range: 127-128
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 32

A response to Worthy et al. 2022. A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand. Zootaxa, 5168 (1), 39–50.

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Wellington 6011; New Zealand
Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory; Department of Zoology; University of Otago; Dunedin 9010; New Zealand
Department of Anatomy; University of Otago; Dunedin 9016; New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Wellington 6011; New Zealand; Department of Geology; University of Otago; Dunedin 9016; New Zealand
School of Natural and Computational Sciences; Massey University; Auckland 0632; New Zealand
Otago Palaeogenetics Laboratory; Department of Zoology; University of Otago; Dunedin 9010; New Zealand
Aves fossil anatid New Zealand

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