Timaru south crevice (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: South Island, New Zealand (44.4° S, 171.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° S, 171.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. H. Worthy. 1997. Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27(1):67-162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215553: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes -
Aptornis defossor Owen 1871 bird
 Psittaciformes - Strigopidae
"Strigops habroptilus" = Strigops habroptila
"Strigops habroptilus" = Strigops habroptila Gray 1845 kakapo
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Cnemiornis calcitrans Owen 1865 South Island goose
 Dinornithiformes - Emeidae
 Dinornithiformes - Dinornithidae