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Biziura delautouri
Forbes 1891
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Type: Tarsometatarsus
Storrs L. Olson,
Notes on subfossil Anatidae from New Zealand, including a new
species of pink-eared duck Malacorhynchus
Emu 77 (1977): 132-135
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Cygnus sumnerensis
(Forbes) 1890
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Type: Coracoïdea, humerus
Secondary materials: Complete skeleton
Elliot W. Dawson,
Re-discoveries of the New Zealand subfossil birds named by H. O.
Forbes
Ibis 100 (1958): 232-237
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Branta hylobadistes
Olson & James 1991
Holocene of Maui, e Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: incomplete associated skeleton
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James,
Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes
Ornithological Monographs 45 (1991)
The American Ornithologists' Union Washington D.C.
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Cnemiornis calcitrans
Owen 1866
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Type: Cranium, sternum, scapula, coracoïdeum, humerus, ulna,
metacarpus, pelvis, sacrum, femur, tibiotarsus, fibula, tarsometatarsus, cervical and
dorsal vertebrae
Brian Gill & Paul Martinson,
New Zealand's extinct birds
(1991)
Random Century, New Zealand
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Cnemiornis gracilis
(Forbes) 1891
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Type: left tibiotarsus
Brian Gill & Paul Martinson,
New Zealand's extinct birds
(1991)
Random Century, New Zealand
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Euryanas finschi
(Van Beneden) 1875
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Types: Cranium, sternum, pelvis, coracoïdeum, scapula, ulna, radius,
metacarpus, femur, tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, humerus, furcula, fibula, phalanx 1,
toes, vertebrae
Bradley C. Livezey,
A phylogenetic classification of waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes),
including selected fossil species
Annals of Carnegie Museum 66 (1997): 457-496
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Geochen rhuax
Wetmore 1943
Holocene of Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Type: Right tibiotarsus fragment
Alexander Wetmore,
An extinct goose from the island of Hawaii
The Condor 45, 4 (1943): 146-148
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Chelychelynechen quassus
Olson & James 1991
Holocene of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: Associated rostrum, mandibula and os entoglossum
Secondary materials: Paratype: left pterygoïd, 16 vertebrae, both coracoïd, left
scapula, distal and proximal ends right humerus, left humerus without head, proximal end
radius, left carpometacarpus, proximal end left femur, proximal end left fibula, fragments
pedal phalanges, further from another site on Kauai anterior part pelvis with part of the
sacrum
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James,
Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes
Ornithological Monographs 45 (1991)
The American Ornithologists' Union Washington D.C.
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Ptaiochen pau
Olson & James 1991
Holocene of Maui, e Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: associated cranium, rostrum and mandibula
Secondary materials: Paratype: associated incomplete skeleton, cranium, 5 presacral and 5
caudal vertebrae plus pygostyle; pelvis, right coracoïd, right both scapulae, humeri,
radii and ulnae; right carpometacarpus, both femora, tibiotarsi, fibulae and
tarsometatarsi; 16 pedal phalanges
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James,
Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes
Ornithological Monographs 45 (1991)
The American Ornithologists' Union Washington D.C.
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Thambetochen chauliodous
Olson & Wetmore 1976
Holocene of Oahu, Molokai and Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: associated skeleton
Storrs L. Olson & Alexander Wetmore,
Preliminary diagnoses of extraordinary new genera of birds from
Pleistocene deposits in the Hawaiian Isands
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 89, 18 (1976): 247-258
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Thambetochen xanion
Olson & James 1991
Holocene of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands
Primary materials: Holotype: rostrum
Secondary materials: Paratypes: rostrum, mandibula, cranium, right coracoïdea, right
femora, right tibiotarsi, left tibiotarsus, both tarsometatarsus
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James,
Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes
Ornithological Monographs 45 (1991)
The American Ornithologists' Union Washington D.C.
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Centrornis majori
Andrews 1897
Pleistocene, subrecent of Madagascar
Primary materials: Type: tibiotarsus, femur, tarsometatarsus, coracoïdeum, metacarpus,
scapula, sternum, humerus, ulna, radius, phalanx I
Kàlmàn Lambrecht,
Handbuch der Palaeornithologie
1024 p. (1933)
Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin
See also:
Pierce Brodkorb,
Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 2 (Anseriformes through
Galliformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 8 (1964): 195-335
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Alopochen sirabensis
(Andrews) 1897
Late Pleistocene, subrecent of Madagascar
Primary materials: Materiaal: cranium, vertebrae, humerus, radius, ulna, coracoïdeum,
metacarpus, scapula, tarsometatarsus, tibiotarsus, femur, pelvis
Kàlmàn Lambrecht,
Handbuch der Palaeornithologie
1024 p. (1933)
Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin
See also:
Pierce Brodkorb,
Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 2 (Anseriformes through
Galliformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 8 (1964): 195-335
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Alopochen mauritianus
(Newton & Gadow) 1893
Pleistocene, subrecent of Mauritius, w Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Type: Carpometacarpus
Bradley C. Livezey,
A phylogenetic classification of waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes),
including selected fossil species
Annals of Carnegie Museum 66 (1997): 457-496
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Alopochen kervazoi
(Cowles) 1994
Subrecent of Réunion, w Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: premaxillare, nasal ???
Secondary materials: Paratype: incomplete sternum, carpometacarpi, phalanx, vertebra
Graham S. Cowles,
A new genus, three new species and two new records of extinct
Holocene birds from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean
Géobios 27 (1994): 87-93
See also:
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Roger Bour, Sonia Ribes & François Moutou,
The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time
of the arrival of the first Europeans
in Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th
International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington,
D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Storrs L. Olson editor 89 (1999): 1-38
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Pachyanas chathamica
Oliver 1955
Holocene of Chatham Islands, sw Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Type: Cranium
Brian Gill & Paul Martinson,
New Zealand's extinct birds
(1991)
Random Century, New Zealand
See also:
Bradley C. Livezey,
A phylogenetic classification of waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes),
including selected fossil species
Annals of Carnegie Museum 66 (1997): 457-496
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Anas marecula
Olson & Jouventin 1996
Holocene of Amsterdam Island, sc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: complete rostrum
Secondary materials: Paratypes: mandibula, sterna caracoïdea, furcula, wing and leg bones
Storrs L. Olson & Pierre Jouventin,
A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island,
southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas)
The Condor 98 (1996): 1-9
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Malacorhynchus scarletti
Olson 1977
Holocene of Pyramid Valley, South Island, New Zealand
Primary materials: Holotype: anterior part premaxilla
Secondary materials: Paratype: posterieur part right mandibulare
Storrs L. Olson,
Notes on subfossil Anatidae from New Zealand, including a new
species of pink-eared duck Malacorhynchus
Emu 77 (1977): 132-135
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Chendytes lawi
L.H. Miller 1925
Pleistocene, subrecent of California, North America,
Primary materials: Type: tibiotarsus
Secondary materials: Coracoïdea, humerus, pelvis, synsacrum, sternum. Bones aged as 3800
years
Loye Holmes Miller,
Chendytes, a diving goose from the California Pleistocene
The Condor 27 (1925): 145-147
See also:
G. Victor Morejohn,
Evidence of the survival to recent times of the extinct
flightless duck Chendytes lawi Miller
in Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander
Wetmore, ed.: Storrs. L. Olson (1976)
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