''Neochen debilis'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...
species of goose from the
Middle Pleistocene
The Chibanian, more widely known as the Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale or a Stage (stratigraphy), stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocen ...
Belgrano Formation of
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
. Argentine paleontologist
Florentino Ameghino
Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especial ...
described the species from a tarsometatarsus discovered in
La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. According to the 2022 Argentina census, census, the La Plata Partido, Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabit ...
.
[Agnolin, 2006, p.93] It was smaller than the extant
Orinoco goose
The Orinoco goose (''Neochen jubata'') is a Near Threatened species of waterfowl in the tribe Tadornini of subfamily Anserinae.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist ...
.
[Ameghino, F. (1891) Enumeración de las aves fósiles de la República Argentina. Rev. Arg. Hist. Nat., 1: 441-453.]
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debilis
Pleistocene birds
Quaternary birds of South America
Ensenadan
Pleistocene Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Fossil taxa described in 1891
Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
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