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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | A bittern (Aves: Ardeidae) from the early Miocene of New Zealand |
Author: | Worthy, T. Worthy, J. Tennyson, A. Scofield, R. |
Citation: | Paleontological Journal, 2013; 47(11):1331-1343 |
Publisher: | Springer US |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0031-0301 1555-6174 |
Statement of Responsibility: | T. H. Worthy, J. P. Worthy, A. J. D. Tennyson, and R. P. Scofield |
Abstract: | Herons (Aves: Ardeidae) are rare in the fossil record globally. Fossil taxa referred to Ardeinae and Nycticoracini are known from as early as the early Oligocene and ardeids undetermined to subfamily include some as old as the early Eocene. In Australasia, the pre-Pliocene record is restricted to one species from the early Miocene of New Zealand. On the basis of a tarsometatarsus and a coracoid we describe a new species of bittern (Ardeidae: Botaurinae) from the St Bathans Fauna, of early Miocene age, from Otago, New Zealand. This is only the third and the oldest pre-Quaternary record for Botaurinae globally. |
Keywords: | Fossil heron; bittern; Ardeidae; St Bathans Fauna; early Miocene |
Description: | First online: 19 December 2013 |
Rights: | © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2013 |
DOI: | 10.1134/S0031030113110154 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120100486 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s0031030113110154 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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