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Kuiornis

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Kuiornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthisittidae
Genus: Kuiornis
Worthy et al., 2010
Species:
K. indicator
Binomial name
Kuiornis indicator
Worthy et al., 2010

Kuiornis indicator is an extinct New Zealand wren (Acanthisittidae) known from the early Miocene (19–16 million years ago) St Bathans fauna in Central Otago. It is known from a holotype proximal right tarsometatarsus (NMNZ S.50929). Amongst acanthisittids it is most closely related to the living rifleman.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Trevor H. Worthy; Suzanne J. Hand; Jacqueline M. T. Nguyen; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Jennifer P. Worthy; R. Paul Scofield; Walter E. Boles; Michael Archer (2010). "Biogeographical and Phylogenetic Implications of an Early Miocene Wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (2): 479–498. doi:10.1080/02724631003618033. S2CID 85994536.