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Apteryx littoralis

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was probably restricted to a coastal region due to volcanic activity in the central North Island, restricting its range and habitat to a small region of the island.
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is the second oldest record of kiwis known to date and is also the only known extinct species belonging to the
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went extinct, although it disappears from the fossil record around 771,000 years ago, at the end of the
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in size and shape, but differs in being stouter, with proportionally narrower proximal and distal ends.
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demonstrates a relatively conservative kiwi morphology since the mid-Pleistocene.
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The holotype, NMNZ S.36731, was discovered in 1998 in a strata of the
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genus and is one of two known extinct kiwi species โ€“ the other is
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was discovered, stopped being deposited after the Calabrian.
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was named and described by Tennyson & Tomotani in 2021.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Palaeognathae
Apterygiformes
Apterygidae
Apteryx
Binomial name
extinct
kiwi
North Island
holotype
tarsometatarsus
Pleistocene

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