Chendytes lawi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anatoidea
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Familia: Anatidae
Subfamilia: Merginae
Genus: †Chendytes
Species: ‡Chendytes lawi

Name

‡Chendytes lawi Miller, 1925

Type material

Holotype:UCMP27001
- Repository: Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Alameda County, California, Unites States
  - Collector: F.C. Clark in 1925

Type locality

Pleistocene, Rancholabrean; San Pedro Formation; north of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Etymology

"This species is named in honor of Mr. J. Eugene Law, whose continued efforts,

both biological and administrative, have materially advanced the cause of ornithology in the western United States."

Distribution

Pleistocene

Rancholabrean
- San Pedro Formation; north of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Bixby Slough, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Lomita, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Playa de1 Rey, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Vermont and Sepulveda Blvds., Los Angeles County, California, USA
- ?; Newport Bay, Orange County, California, USA
- ?; San Nicolás Island, Ventura County, California, USA
- ?; "Kitchen middens", San Nicolás Island, Ventura County, California, USA
- ?; Sexton Canyon, Ventura County, California, USA

References

Primary references

Miller, L.H. 1925. Chendytes, a diving goose from the California Pleistocene. Condor 27(4): 145–147. DOI: 10.2307/1362992, JSTOR Reference page.
Howard H. 1955. New Records and a New Species of Chendytes, an Extinct Genus of Diving Geese. Condor 57(3 May–June): 135–143. doi:10.2307/1364861. https://sora.unm.edu/node/100701.

Vernacular names

English: Law's Diving-goose
français: Macreuse géante de Californie
italiano: Oca tuffatrice di Law