Sibirionetta formosa
The Baikal teal, also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in East Asia.

Sun Jiao (Interaccoonale) · CC BY 4.0 · 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- Also called
- Siberian tealPBDB
- Sits inside
- SibirionettaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anseriformes
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sibirionetta formosa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Sibirionetta formosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sibirionetta formosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Anas2 sites
- Anas crecca2 sites
- Anas platyrhynchos2 sites
- Anatidae2 sites
- Aythya fuligula2 sites
- Chroicocephalus ridibundus2 sites
- Gallinago2 sites
- Hirundo rustica2 sites
- Lagopus2 sites
- Lagopus lagopus2 sites
- Lagopus muta2 sites
- Mareca penelope2 sites
- Milvus migrans2 sites
- Passeriformes2 sites
- Perisoreus infaustus2 sites
- Podiceps cristatus2 sites
- Podiceps grisegena2 sites
- Scolopacidae2 sites
- Turdus2 sites
- Turdus hortulorum2 sites
- Turdus iliacus2 sites
- Turdus pallidus2 sites
- Turdus pilaris2 sites
- Accipiter nisus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sibirionetta formosa, 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 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sibirionetta formosa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Sun Jiao (Interaccoonale)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sibirionetta formosa 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Baikal teal”
- 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 itSibirionetta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Georgi 1775)