Taxonavigation
Familia: Apterygidae
Genus: †Proapteryx
Species: †Proapteryx micromeros
Name
Proapteryx micromeros Worthy, Worthy, Tennyson, Salisbury, Hand & Scofield, 2013: 67
Holotype: MONZ NMNZ S.53324 ('right femur missing distal condyles')
Type locality/age: 'In a clay layer enveloping stromatolites, Site FF1 (Lindqvist 1994), a fossil stromatolite bed at 44.90359°S, 169.85840°E, Manuherikia River, Otago, New Zealand. Fossil Record Number (FRN) in the archival Fossil Record File of the Geological Society of New Zealand is H41/f0058 (stromatolites) and H41/ f0059 (clay draping stromatolites)' / 'Bannockburn Formation, Manuherikia Group, Early Miocene (Altonian); 19–16 Ma; St Bathans Fauna. The stratigraphic relationship of site FF1 to other Bannockburn Formation exposures is presently unknown but the associated faunas are similar'
- ZooBank: C24ED241-0FC4-425E-982D-1744C0247D7E
References
Primary references
- Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. Pp. 63-80 in: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.), Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 2013. ResearchGate Reference page. [See p. 67, and figs. 1-3]