A tiny duck (&lt;em&gt;Sibirionetta formozovi&lt;/em&gt; sp. nov.), a giant grey partridge (&lt;em&gt;Titanoperdix felixi&lt;/em&gt; gen. et sp. nov.), a new rail (&lt;em&gt;Porzana payevskyi&lt;/em&gt; sp. nov.), and other birds from the Early Pleistocene of Baikalian Siberia
Journal: Biological Communications
Year: 2023

The paper describes fossil birds from the Early Pleistocene (Gelasian) of Malye Goly locality in the Baikal area of the East Siberia (Irkutsk Region, Russia). This is the first studied bird fauna from the Early Pleistocene of the Northern Asia, shedding the first light on the early Quaternary bird associations of the Siberia. A tiny fossil duck Sibirionetta formozovi sp. nov. is the first fossil representative of the modern genus Sibirionetta, the modern endemic of Eastern Siberia. This find doc