''Neochen debilis'' is an
extinct species of goose from the
Middle Pleistocene
The Chibanian, widely known by its previous designation of Middle Pleistocene, is an Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale or a Stage (stratigraphy), stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch withi ...
Belgrano Formation Belgrano may refer to:
People
* Joaquín Belgrano (1773–1848), an Argentine patriot
* José Denis Belgrano (1844–1917), Spanish painter
* Joseph Belgrano (1762–1823), Argentine military officer and politician, brother of Manuel
* Manuel Belg ...
of Argentina. 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, especiall ...
described the species from a tarsometatarsus discovered in
La Plata
La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from ...
.
[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 tribe Tadornini of subfamily Anserinae.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist o ...
.
[Ameghino, F. (1891) Enumeración de las aves fósiles de la República Argentina. Rev. Arg. Hist. Nat., 1: 441-453.]
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Tadorninae
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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