Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Gruiformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: †Aptornithidae
Genus: Aptornis
Species: Aptornis proasciarostratus
Name
- Aptornis proasciarostratus Worthy, Tennyson & Scofield, 2011 ZooBank
- Authority for current placement: original (provisional)
- undisputed by all subsequent authorities
- Original genus: Aptornis
- Original status: valid species
- Primary type: holotype
- Fixation: designated
- Description: fossil, vertebra 16
- Repository: MONZ, as 'NMNZ S.52350'
- Type locality and horizon: 'Bed HH1a, Manuherikia River, Otago', 'Manuherikia Group, Early Miocene (Altonian); 19–16 Ma; St Bathans Fauna'
- Authority for current placement: original (provisional)
References
- Worthy, T.H.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Scofield, R.P. 2011: Fossils reveal an early Miocene presence of the aberrant gruiform Aves: Aptornithidae in New Zealand. Journal of ornithology 152(3): 669-680. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-011-0649-6
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