Amazonetta brasiliensis (Gmelin)

Nascimento, Rafael S. & Silveira, Luís Fábio, 2024, Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil, Zoologia (e 23079) 41, pp. 1-234 : 101-102

271. Amazonetta brasiliensis (Gmelin)

Quaternary – MG, PI, RJ

Anas sp. , s. Anm. under 14. Anas brasiliensis [in part] – Winge 1887: 15.

Anas brasiliensis (et aff.) – Winge 1887: 22.

Querquedula brasiliensis – Goeldi 1894: 603.

Anas brasiliensis – Lambrecht 1933: 740.

Nettion brasiliense – Brodkorb 1964: 243.

Nettion brasiliense [ Anas brasiliensis ] – Mones 1986: 81–82. Amazonetta brasiliensis – Cuello 1988: 35.

Amazonetta brasiliensis – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 490.

Winge (1887) reported several bones from Lapa da Escrivânia V, including an uncertain femur, several bones likely of a single individual from Lapa da Escrivânia XI, and some bones from Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro. The material is represented by the coracoid, humerus, ulna, radius, carpometacarpus, femur, tibiotarsus, and tarsometatarsus. Additionally, from Lapa da Escrivânia V,there is the distal end of a humerus that is quite similar to that of Amazonetta brasiliensis but larg- er, besides a coracoid and a carpometacarpus that perhaps can also be assigned here. From “various caves” [26], two coracoids, slightly larger than in A. brasiliensis and different from it and each other (even the genus assignment is uncertain), besides a cervical vertebra of a considerably large anatid.

Anseriformes ? [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993a: 198. Anseriformes ? [in part] – Guérin et al. 1993b: 328. Amazonetta brasiliensis - Guérin et al. 1996: 84.

Amazonetta brasiliensis – Guérin et al. 2002: 136.

Guérin et al. (1996) reported this species from Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião. At least one adult individual is present in the material .

Amazonetta brasiliensis – Kneip et al. 1994: 50.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Kneip et al. 1995: 7.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Kneip et al. 1997: 19, 37.

Anatidae (“marreca, pato-do-mato”) [in part] – Magalhães et al. 2001: 59.

Kneip et al. (1994) reported a bone from layer I (3,610±190 years BP) of Sambaqui do Moa, and two bones of at least one individual from layer I (younger than 1,790±50 years BP) and two bones of at least one individual from layer III (1,810±40 years BP) of Sambaqui da Pontinha in Saquarema , Rio de Janeiro .