''Neochen pugil'' 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

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...

or possibly the

Early Holocene In the geologic time scale, the Greenlandian is the earliest age or lowest stage of the Holocene Epoch or Series, part of the Quaternary. Beginning in 11,650 BP (9701 BCE or 300 HE) and ending with the 8.2-kiloyear event (c. 8200–8300 B ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

. The fossils were discovered by Danish paleontologist

Peter Wilhelm Lund Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeology, archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as wel ...

near Lagoa Santa,

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...

state, and described by Danish ornithologist Oluf Winge in 1888. It was related to the living

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 ...

, but much larger.Winge, O. (1888) Fugle fra Knoglehuler i Brasilien – E Museo Lundii 1 (2): 1-54. It has a notably large build in size compared to similar species of the same genus, having a slender, 13.5 centimeter on average long tarsometatarsus.

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* * pugil Pleistocene birds Quaternary birds of South America Pleistocene Brazil Fossils of Brazil Fossil taxa described in 1888 {{Paleo-bird-stub