Anas marecula
The Amsterdam wigeon, also known as the Amsterdam Island duck or Amsterdam duck, is an extinct species of anatid waterfowl, endemic to Île Amsterdam, the French Southern Territories. The flightless species is only known from bones and was presumably driven extinct by visiting sealers and the rats they introduced.
Geo Swan · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnasPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anatinae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anatinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Anatinae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anas marecula on record, most of them in the Holocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Anas marecula and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anas marecula and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ardenna carneipes1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Diomedea1 site
- Diomedea amsterdamensis1 site
- Eudyptes chrysocome1 site
- Fregetta grallaria1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Hydrobatidae1 site
- Oceanites1 site
- Pachyptila1 site
- Pachyptila desolata1 site
- Pachyptila salvini macgillivrayi1 site
- Pachyptila turtur1 site
- Pelagodroma marina1 site
- Pelecanoides urinatrix1 site
- Procellaria cinerea1 site
- Pseudobulweria aterrima1 site
- Pterodroma1 site
- Pterodroma arminjoniana1 site
- Pterodroma baraui1 site
- Pterodroma macroptera1 site
- Pterodroma mollis1 site
- Puffinus assimilis1 site
- Stercorarius antarcticus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anas marecula, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 reference- A new species of small flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas)1
Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anas marecula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Geo Swan
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anas marecula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnas through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olson and Jouventin 1996