Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Apterygiformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Apterygidae
Genus: †Proapteryx
Species: Proapteryx micromeros
Name
Proapteryx micromeros Worthy et al., 2013: 67
- Original genus: Proapteryx Worthy et al., 2013
- Original status: valid species
- Primary type: holotype
- Fixation: designated
- Description: 'right femur missing distal condyles'
- Repository: MONZ NMNZ S.53324
- 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
- Worthy, T.H. et al. 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. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 67, and figs. 1-3]