TY - JOUR
T1 - A new fossil species of procellaria (Aves
T2 - Procellariiformes) from the pliocene of New Zealand
AU - Tennyson, Alan James Drummond
AU - Tomotani, Barbara Mizumo
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the collector, John Buchanan-Brown, for enabling the accession of this specimen into the NMNZ collection, and for preparing it; Luis Fabio Silveira and Rafael Nascimento (MZUSP) who hosted BMT at the MZUSP and assisted in locating specimens and retrieving their data; and Jean-Claude Stahl (NMNZ) for photographing NMNZ specimens. BMT was supported by a Rubicon fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; Rubicon #019.181EN.005).
Funding Information:
We thank the collector, John Buchanan-Brown, for en-abling the accession of this specimen into the NMNZ col-lection, and for preparing it; Luis Fabio Silveira and Rafael Nascimento (MZUSP) who hosted BMT at the MZUSP and assisted in locating specimens and retrieving their data; and Jean-Claude Stahl (NMNZ) for photographing NMNZ specimens. BMT was supported by a Rubicon fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; Rubicon #019.181EN.005).
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We describe a new Procellaria petrel species from the late Pliocene of Taranaki, New Zealand. The new species is most similar morphologically to the White-Chinned Petrel (P. aequinoctialis), Spectacled Petrel (P. conspicillata) and the Westland Petrel (P. westlandica). Compared with those taxa, the new species has a deeper and shorter premaxilla, longer coracoid and shorter wings, while its legs are a similar size. Today, New Zealand is the centre of global diversity of the genus, with four breeding species. This is the first fossil species of Procellaria to be described from New Zealand, attesting to a reasonably long history of this genus in the region.
AB - We describe a new Procellaria petrel species from the late Pliocene of Taranaki, New Zealand. The new species is most similar morphologically to the White-Chinned Petrel (P. aequinoctialis), Spectacled Petrel (P. conspicillata) and the Westland Petrel (P. westlandica). Compared with those taxa, the new species has a deeper and shorter premaxilla, longer coracoid and shorter wings, while its legs are a similar size. Today, New Zealand is the centre of global diversity of the genus, with four breeding species. This is the first fossil species of Procellaria to be described from New Zealand, attesting to a reasonably long history of this genus in the region.
KW - Petrel
KW - Piacenzian
KW - Procellaria altirostris sp. nov
KW - Procellariidae
KW - Taranaki
U2 - 10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.16
DO - 10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.16
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100338046
VL - 61
SP - 1
EP - 11
M1 - e20216116
ER -