Pachyplichas jagmi (New Zealand Stout-legged Wren)

[Melanie]

Pachyplichas jagmi Millener 1988 (New Zealand stout-legged wren, now extinct). After the initials of palaeontologist John A. Grant-Mackie.

home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html

[Melanie]

Pachyplichas jagmi
Millener 1988
Holocene of North Island, New Zealand
Primary materials: Holotype: complete right tarsometatarsus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: both coracoïdea, both humeri, left ulna, right radius, left femur, both tibiotarsi, partial synsacrum

Philip R. Millener,
Contributions to New Zealand's late Quaternary avifauna. I: Pachyplichas, a new genus of wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae), with two new species
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 18 (1988): 383-406

www.ornitaxa.com/SM/Fossil/FossilAcanthisit.htm

[Melanie]

Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens

Kieren J. Mitchell , Jamie R. Wood, Bastien Llamas, Patricia A. McLenachan, Olga Kardailsky, R. Paul Scofield, Trevor H. Worthy, Alan Coopera

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Available online 31 May 2016

Highlights

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We sequence mitogenomes from three extinct and one living acanthisittid.
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Stout-legged wrens (Pachyplichas) evolved recently from a gracile, flighted ancestor.
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We confirm that the Miocene Kuiornis indicator is a crown-group acanthisittid.
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Acanthisittids may have survived the “Oligocene drowning” of New Zealand in situ.
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We revise acanthisittid taxonomy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316301270

[Melanie]

From the article:

Consequently, we synonymize Pachyplichas Millener, 1988 with Xenicus
Gray 1855, so that Pachyplichas jagmi Millener 1988 and Pachyplichas yaldwyni
Millener 1988 become Xenicus jagmi and Xenicus yaldwyni, respectively.

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May 31, 2016 11:56:05 GMT Melanie said:

Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens

Kieren J. Mitchell , Jamie R. Wood, Bastien Llamas, Patricia A. McLenachan, Olga Kardailsky, R. Paul Scofield, Trevor H. Worthy, Alan Coopera

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Available online 31 May 2016

Highlights

•

We sequence mitogenomes from three extinct and one living acanthisittid.
•

Stout-legged wrens (Pachyplichas) evolved recently from a gracile, flighted ancestor.
•

We confirm that the Miocene Kuiornis indicator is a crown-group acanthisittid.
•

Acanthisittids may have survived the “Oligocene drowning” of New Zealand in situ.
•

We revise acanthisittid taxonomy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790316301270

Full paper available free online: www.academia.edu/29427998/Mitchell_K.J._J._R._Wood_B._Llamas_P._A._McLenachan_O._Kardailsky_R._P._Scofield_T._H._Worthy_A._Cooper_2016._Ancient_mitochondrial_genomes_clarify_the_evolutionary_history_of_New_Zealand_s_enigmatic_acanthisittid_wrens._Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution_102_295-304

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Worthy, Trevor H. and Holdaway, Richard N. (2000). Terrestrial fossil vertebrate faunas from inland Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Canterbury Museum 14: 89-154.