Matanas

Not to be confused with Matana or Matanaq.
Matanas enrighti
Temporal range: Early Miocene 19–16 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Subfamily: Anatinae
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.[1]

References

  1. Worthy TH, Tennyson AJ, Jones C, McNamara JA, Douglas BJ (2007). "Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 5 (1): 1–39. doi:10.1017/S1477201906001957.


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