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Post by another specialist on Aug 7, 2007 17:54:49 GMT
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Post by adzebill on Aug 20, 2014 19:20:44 GMT
" A significant find of this study is the probable presence of an extinct teal on Macquarie Island.
This small duck is represented by a fragmentary skull and pelvis — unfortunately the bones are
too damaged to identify the species represented with certainty using morphological criteria.
Some 19th century authors suggested that there was a teal resident on Macquarie Island (e.g. see
Scott 1883; Falla 1937: 19). On the basis of morphology and measurements, we favour the
idea that the bones represent an extinct endemic species. Endemic flightless teals are found on the
two nearest subantarctic islands — Auckland and Campbell — so an endemic teal on Macquarie
might be expected. Norman (1987) concluded that all early “teal” records related to the Grey
Teal. However, the only confirmed records of Grey Teal on the island relate to vagrants (Copson
& Brothers 2008). An 1822 reference reporting “Widgeons (called Tussock fowl by the sealers
as they lived among the tussock and did not fly)” as well as “teal (from the lagoons on top of the
island)” (Cumpston 1968: 51) may well refer to a locally breeding teal (Tennyson & Martinson
2007: 80). Finds of more complete bones of this duck should quickly resolve the question". Source: Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island Alan J.D. Tennyson & R. Paul Scofield Paleornithological Research 2013 Proceed. 8th Inter nat. Meeting Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution Ursula B. Göhlich & Andreas Kroh (Eds) verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/buecher/2013_SAPE_Proceedings/16_Tennyson_&_Scotfield.pdf |
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Post by redpinnipedgamer on Nov 8, 2024 22:35:02 GMT
 Paleoart I did |
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Post by redpinnipedgamer on Nov 8, 2024 22:36:42 GMT
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