Fossil Stone Shelduck (Tadorna petrina) and Shoveler (Spatula praeclypeata sp. nov.)—the Oldest Early Pleistocene Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Crimea
Journal: Paleontological Journal
Year: 2022

The oldest remains of anseriform birds for the Early Pleistocene of the Northern Black Sea region are described based on materials from the Taurida Cave (central part of the Crimean Peninsula, 1.9–1.5 Ma). A fragmentary skeleton of a shelduck (Tadornini) is attributed to the fossil stone shelduck Tadorna petrina Kurochkin, 1985, originally described from the Upper Pliocene of Transbaikalia and morphologically close to the modern Ruddy Shelduck T. ferruginea. This is the oldest find of the Ruddy