Fossil deposits in the Hodges Creek Cave System, on the northern foothills of Mt Arthur, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand | Notornis and Birds New Zealand

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Worthy, TH¹ 

关键词: Euryanas finschi;    Fossil avifauna;    Holocene;    New Zealand;    northwest Nelson;    Pleistocene;   

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学科分类：动物科学

来源: Ornithological Society of New Zealand Inc.

【 摘 要 】

Avifaunas from Pleistocene and Holocene fossil deposits in the Hodges Creek Cave System in northwest Nelson, New Zealand, are described. At least 20 species of birds are present in glacial-age deposits from these sites at about 900 m above sea level. A sample of 12,000 year old Finsch's Duck (Euryanas finschi) bones shows that post-glacial shortening of the wings in this species had already started at that time.

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