Mioquerquedula

{{Short description|Extinct genus of birds}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Middle Miocene}}

| taxon = Mioquerquedula

| authority = Zelenkov & Kuročkin, 2012

| type_species = {{extinct}}Mioquerquedula minutissima

| type_species_authority = Zelenkov & Kuročkin, 2012

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = *†M. palaeotagaica Zelenkov 2023

}}

Mioquerquedula is an extinct genus of ducks from the Middle Miocene containing two species, M. minutissima and M. velox.{{cite book | last=Mayr | first=G. | title=Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance | publisher=Wiley | series=TOPA Topics in Paleobiology | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-119-02073-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDkKDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT264 | access-date=3 May 2019 | page=264}} It was one of the smallest anseriforms known. The genus was erected by Nikita Zelenkov and Evgenii Nikolaievich Kurochkin in 2012.{{Cite web |url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250002885 |title= Dabbling Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the Middle Miocene of Mongolia |date= October 2018 |website= ResearchGate}}

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Category:Anatidae

Category:Fossil taxa described in 2012

Category:Neogene birds of Asia

Category:Prehistoric bird genera