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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 5:45:54 GMT
Dryolimnas augusti
Mourer-Chauviré, Bour, Ribes & Moutou 1999
Holocene of Réunion, w Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: both tarsometatarsi
Secondary materials: Paratypes: fragment left mandibula, sacrum, coracoïd, humeri, ulna, femora, tibiotarsi, pedal phalanges, vertebrae
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Roger Bour, Sonia Ribes & François Moutou,
The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans
in Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Storrs L. Olson editor 89 (1999): 1-38
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Post by Melanie on Jun 8, 2005 10:58:47 GMT
 second row, first bird |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 8, 2005 11:09:17 GMT
nice pic - was looking at uploading this myself....
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 14:47:27 GMT
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Post by Carlos on Jul 5, 2006 17:36:18 GMT
In: Mourer-Chauviré, C. et al. Recent avian extinctions on Réunion (Mascarene Islands) from paleontological and historical sources. Bull B.O.C. 2006 126A
Dryolimnas augusti Mourer-Chauviré et al., 1999, Réunion Wood Rail
Dubois was the only author to mention rails, and he simply wrote that there were wood rails. The rail remains have been attributed to the genus Dryolimnas and they difer from recent species, D. cuvieri, White-thorated Rail, in their larger size and by the shape of the tarsometatarsus which is much more robust. The proportions of the wing elements compared to those of the leg reveal that the Réunion Wood Rail was flightless, a characteristic of the extant subspecies D. cuvieri aldabranus, of Aldabra, whilst the nominate taxon from Madagascar remains volant.
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Post by another specialist on Jul 24, 2007 5:23:31 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jul 3, 2019 0:49:14 GMT
Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species JULIAN PENDER HUME Abstract Five species in five genera of extinct endemic rails have been described from the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues: the Mauritian Red Rail or Poule Rouge Aphanapteryx bonasia; Mascarene Coot or Poule d’eau Fulica newtonii; which occurred on Mauritius and Réunion; Réunion Wood Rail Dryolimnas augusti; Réunion Gallinule or Oiseaux bleu ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’; and Rodrigues or Leguat’s Rail Erythromachus leguati. All are known from fossil remains and/or from contemporary accounts and illustrations. A sixth species of rail Dryolimnas sp. nov. is described herein from fossils from Mauritius, but was not unequivocally previously reported in the contemporary literature. This paper provides an analysis of the Rallidae of the Mascarene Islands based on existing and newly discovered fossil remains, and details historical reports and accounts. Comprehensive osteological descriptions and synonymies are also included. Their ecology and extinction chronologies are interpreted from historical evidence. The relationships of Aphanapteryx and Erythromachus are unresolved, having clearly been isolated for a considerable time; the middle Miocene is the earliest their ancestors could have arrived on the Mascarenes, but this may have happened more recently. Mascarene derivatives of Fulica, Porphyrio and Dryolimnas are of much more recent origin, and appear to have originated in Africa or Madagascar. All terrestrial rails on Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues, were probable victims of cat predation following their historic introduction to the islands, whereas over-hunting by humans was probably the primary cause of extinction of ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’ on Réunion. The only extant rail on the Mascarenes today, the Madagascar race of Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa, is a recent arrival, having colonised Mauritius and Réunion after the extinction of Fulica newtonii. Keywords Aves, Mascarene rails, Rallidae, Aphanapteryx, Erythromachus, Dryolimnas, Porphyrio, Gallinula, Leguatia, extinction, affinities, ecology, sexual dimorphism mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4626.1.1 |
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Post by surroundx on Nov 13, 2019 12:16:32 GMT
Original description: Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. & Moutou, F. (1999). The Avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In: Olson, S. (ed): Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology 89: 1-38. |
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