Helonetta
| Helonetta Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Anseriformes |
| Family: | Anatidae |
| Genus: | †Helonetta |
| Species: | †H. brodkorpi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Helonetta brodkorpi Emslie, 1992
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Helonetta is an extinct genus of anatid that lived during the Piacenzian stage of the Pliocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Helonetta brodkorpi is known from the Tamiami Formation of Florida.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Emslie, Steven D. (1992). "Two New Late Blancan Avifaunas from Florida and the Extinction of Wetland Birds in the Plio-Pleistocene". In Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Pierce Brodkorb, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series. 36: 249–269.
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