Helonetta

Helonetta
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: †
Species:
†H. brodkorpi
Binomial name
†Helonetta brodkorpi
Emslie, 1992

Helonetta is an extinct genus of anatid that lived during the Piacenzian stage of the Pliocene epoch.

Distribution

Helonetta brodkorpi is known from the Tamiami Formation of Florida.[1]

References

  1. ^ Emslie, Steven D. (1992). "Two New Late Blancan Avifaunas from Florida and the Extinction of Wetland Birds in the Plio-Pleistocene". In Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series. 36: 249–269.


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