Cygnus falconeri

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Giant swan
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene
Reconstruction of Cygnus falconeri with Palaeoloxodon falconeri and a human for scale
Reconstruction of Cygnus falconeri with Palaeoloxodon falconeri and a human for scale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Cygnus
Species:
C. falconeri
Binomial name
Cygnus falconeri
Parker, 1865[1]

Cygnus falconeri, the giant swan, (

predators and superior competitors.[8] Its bones are exhibited at Għar Dalam museum in Birżebbuġa
, Malta.

References

  1. ^ Parker, W. K. (1865). "Preliminary notes on some fossil birds from the Zebbug Cave, Malta". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1865: 752–753 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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  4. ^ NORTHCOTE, E. M. (2008). SIZE, FORM AND HABIT OF THE EXTINCT MALTESE SWAN CYGNUS FALCONERI. Ibis, 124(2), 148–158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1982.tb03753.x
  5. ^ Watanabe, J., & Matsuoka, H. (2015). Flightless diving duck (Aves, Anatidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, northeast Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35(6), e994745. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.994745
  6. ^ Watanabe, J. (2017). Quantitative discrimination of flightlessness in fossil Anatidae from skeletal proportions. The Auk, 134(3), 672–695. https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-17-23.1
  7. ^ Antoni, Josep (May 30, 2000). "Vertebrate Evolution and Extinction on Western and Central Mediterranean Islands". Tropics (10): 103–123. Archived from the original on 2006-04-18.
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