Te Ana a Moe, Chatham Island: Holocene, New Zealand
collected by P.R. Millener 1992

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Rallidae
Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi (Forbes 1892)
Fulica chathamensis Forbes 1892
Gallirallus dieffenbachii (Gray 1843)
Gallirallus modestus (Hutton 1872)
Reptilia - Psittaciformes - Psittaculidae
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman 1787)
Cyanoramphus auriceps (Kuhl 1820)
Reptilia - Psittaciformes - Strigopidae
Nestor sp. Lesson 1830
    = Nestor chathamensis Wood et al. 2014
Wood et al. 2014
Reptilia - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Hemiphaga chathamensis (Rothschild 1891)
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Mergus sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Mergus milleneri n. sp. Williams and Tennyson 2014
Williams et al. 2014
Anas sp. Linnaeus 1758
Pachyanas chathamica Oliver 1955
recombined as Anas chathamica
Tadorna sp. Boie 1822
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Rhipiduridae
Rhipidura fuliginosa (Sparrman 1787)
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Petroicidae
Petroica traversi (Buller 1872)
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Meliphagidae
Anthornis melanura (Sparrman 1786)
Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin 1788)
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Locustellidae
Bowdleria rufescens (Buller 1869)
recombined as Megalurus rufescens
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Acanthizidae
Gerygone albofrontata Gray 1845
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Motacillidae
Anthus novaeseelandiae (Gmelin 1789)
Reptilia - Oceanitidae
Pelagodroma marina (Latham 1790)
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Pterodroma imberi Tennyson et al. 2015
Tennyson et al. 2015 1 specimen
Pterodroma nigripennis (Rothschild 1893)
Pterodroma magentae (Giglioli and Salvadori 1869)
Pterodroma axillaris (Salvin 1893)
Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin 1789)
Pachyptila crassirostris (Mathews 1912)
Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl 1820)
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Eudyptula minor (Forster 1781)
Reptilia - Falconidae
Falco novaeseelandiae Gmelin 1788
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Coenocorypha chathamica (Forbes 1893)
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein 1823
see common names

Geography
Country:New Zealand
Coordinates: 43.9° South, 176.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° South, 176.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:3904 to 1149 YBP (14C (calibrated))
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P.R. Millener Collection dates:1992
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (Te Papa) (NMNZ).
Metadata
Database number:198088
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-12-07 22:35:04 Last modified:2018-12-08 17:46:17
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-07 22:35:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
67514. P. R. Millener. 1999. The history of the Chatham Islands' bird fauna of the last 7000 years - a chronicle of change and extinction. Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C, 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89:85-109 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

67507 A. J. D. Tennyson, J. H. Cooper, and L. D. Shepherd. 2015. A new species of extinct Pterodroma petrel (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 135:267-277 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
67526 M. Williams, A. J. D. Tennyson, and D. Sim. 2014. Island differentiation of New Zealand’s extinct mergansers (Anatidae: Mergini), with description of a new species from Chatham Island. Wildfowl 6:3-34 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
67529 J. R. Wood, K. J. Mitchell, R. P. Scofield, A. J. D. Tennyson, A. E. Fidler, J. M. Wilmshurst, B. Llamas and A. Cooper. 2014. An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:185-199 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]