Malagasy sheldgoose

Malagasy sheldgoose; Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
	Limb fossils
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	†Centrornis; Andrews, 1897
Species:	†C. majori
Binomial name
	†Centrornis majori; Andrews, 1897

The Malagasy sheldgoose (Centrornis majori) is an extinct

subfossil remains radiocarbon dated to about 17,000 years ago, found in central Madagascar.^[2]

References

doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1897.tb03281.x
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^ Goodman, SM (1999). Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar: Changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa. pp. 3071–3083. Archived from the original on 2014-05-19.

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[1] :10.1111/j.1474-919X.1897.tb03281.x
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[2] Goodman, SM (1999). Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar: Changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa. pp. 3071–3083. Archived from the original on 2014-05-19.

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