Description Générale

Espèce disparue et connue que par des ossements trouvés lors de fouilles archéologiques.

Particularité

Balouet & Olson 1989 Holocene of New Caledonia Primary materials: Holotype: Left tarsometatarsus Secondary materials: Paratypes: complete left scapula, half right scapula, proximal end left ulna, fragment right femur, ungual phalanx, anterior end right scapula, proximal end right ulna, distal helft left ulna, distal end left ulna, proximal half right femur, ungual phalanges Jean Christophe Balouet & Storrs L. Olson, Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 469 (1989): 1-38 Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.