Fossil of New Duck Species Found in New Zealand paleontology science
lived between 16 and 19 million years ago on a huge paleolake called Lake Manuherikia.
The bird’s fossilized remains were recovered from the Early Miocene Bannockburn Formation exposed near the modern-day city of St Bathans, Central Otago, New Zealand.at some point in the 3-million-year period preserved in the fossil record at St Bathans,” said Dr. Trevor Worthy, a paleontologist at Flinders University.
“We haven’t found these two ducks in the same fossil layer, and we think that’s because they lived at different times, with“The switch in duck species may well occur at the same time as a change in the vegetation in the region, revealed by pollen studies years ago. If so, this may be evidence of climate change affecting the St Bathans Fauna.”that paleontologists have found at St Bathans, and one of nine waterfowl species.will allow many of the other finds from St Bathans to be dated,” said Dr.
“So it allows us to start putting all the animals we’ve found at St Bathans in some sort of chronological order for the first time.”underpins the importance of knowing exactly which layer a fossil derives from. “It is an important step in building up a picture of how the animals and plants living on this ancient lake changed over time,” Dr. Scofield said.
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