Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand

Worthy, Trevor H.; Hand, Suzanne J.; Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T.; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Worthy, Jennifer P.; Scofield, R. Paul; Boles, Walter; Archer, Michael

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“…This rarity is on a par with the remains of other terrestrial taxa such as Sphenodon (Jones et al 2009) and many of the terrestrial birds, e.g. acanthisittid wrens (Worthy et al 2010a). This rarity is therefore real and not related to limited search effort and justifies presentation of these data at this time.…”

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“…Leiopelma is one of the quintessentially New Zealand taxa and is deeply divergent from its sister taxon Ascaphus (Ascaphidae) which together form the sister group of all other anurans (Frost et al 2006;Roelants et al 2007;Pyron & Wiens 2011). Its addition to the St Bathans Fauna shows that all the iconic Recent endemic vertebrate taxa were present in Zealandia (the continental fragment whose emergent part is now New Zealand) during the Early Miocene: sphenodontines, leiopelmatids, moas (Dinornithiformes), kiwi (Apterygidae), New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae), adzebills (Aptornithidae) and burrow-ing bats (Mystacinidae) (Molnar & Pole 1997;Hand et al 2007;Jones et al 2009;Lee MSY et al 2009;Tennyson et al 2010;Worthy et al 2010aWorthy et al , 2011b. To this list can be added New Zealand's first terrestrial mammals, from an as yet unidentified group and of similar high biogeographical interest and apparent ancient origins, reported recently from the St Bathans Fauna (Worthy et al 2006).…”

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“…This fauna was deposited in littoral zone lacustrine sediments in a palaeolake some 5600 km 2 in area (Pole et al 2003), now widely exposed in the Central Otago region. This fauna is dominated by fish, but includes sphenodontines, crocodilians, turtles, lizards, many birds, bats and a non-therian mammal (Molnar & Pole 1997;Lee MSY et al 2009;Jones et al 2009;Scofield et al 2010;Worthy et al 2006Worthy et al , 2007Worthy et al , 2008Worthy et al , 2009Worthy et al , 2010aWorthy et al , 2010bWorthy et al , 2011aWorthy et al , 2011b. The fossils derive from three specific locations as follows and described by Worthy et al (2007) and Schwarzhans et al (2012) Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861…”

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Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand

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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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The first pre-Quaternary anurans from New Zealand are reported from the Early Miocene (19Á 16 Ma) St Bathans Fauna based on 10 fossil bones. Four bones representing two new species differing in size are described in Leiopelma: Leiopelmatidae, and are the first Tertiary records for the family. Six indeterminate frog fossils are morphologically similar to leiopelmatids and represent two species consistent in size with those known from diagnostic material. These records are highly significant, as minimally, they reduce the duration of the leiopelmatid 'ghost lineage' by c.20 million years and demonstrate that a diversity of leiopelmatids has long been present on New Zealand, supporting the ancient dichotomy of the extant species based on molecular data.

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Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand

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“…4B (and SI Text) where the majority of North Island taxa and clades occupy derived phylogenetic positions. Discoveries of tuatara (35), acanthisittid wrens (36), and kauri (37) from similar South Island fossil deposits, and a parallel lack of deep genetic splits in these taxa imply that the recent evolutionary history of many iconic NZ endemics was also on the South Island. This latter observation raises important questions about the nature of terrestrial biotic diversity on the North Island from Ͼ25 Ma to ca.…”

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The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography

Bunce

Worthy

Phillips

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The ratite moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) were a speciose group of massive graviportal avian herbivores that dominated the New Zealand (NZ) ecosystem until their extinction Ϸ600 years ago. The phylogeny and evolutionary history of this morphologically diverse order has remained controversial since their initial description in 1839. We synthesize mitochondrial phylogenetic information from 263 subfossil moa specimens from across NZ with morphological, ecological, and new geological data to create the first comprehensive phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolutionary timeframe for all of the species of an extinct order. We also present an important new geological/paleogeographical model of late Cenozoic NZ, which suggests that terrestrial biota on the North and South Island landmasses were isolated for most of the past 20 -30 Ma. The data reveal that the patterns of genetic diversity within and between different moa clades reflect a complex history following a major marine transgression in the Oligocene, affected by marine barriers, tectonic activity, and glacial cycles. Surprisingly, the remarkable morphological radiation of moa appears to have occurred much more recently than previous early Miocene (ca. 15 Ma) estimates, and was coincident with the accelerated uplift of the Southern Alps just ca. 5-8.5 Ma. Together with recent fossil evidence, these data suggest that the recent evolutionary history of nearly all of the iconic NZ terrestrial biota occurred principally on just the South Island.ancient DNA ͉ Oligocene Drowning ͉ Dinornithiformes ͉ phylogeny ͉ taxonomy

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“…Taxa that have been proposed as the closest relatives of the passerine birds include Piciformes and the polyphyletic ''Coraciiformes'' (Livezey and Zusi 2007;Manegold 2005after Mayr 2009), Psittaciformes (Ericson et al 2006;Hackett et al 2008) and the extinct family Zygodactylidae (''Primoscenidae''; Mayr 2008). According to both molecular and morphological analyses, the Acanthisittidae are the sister taxon of all other extant Passeriformes (Barker et al 2004;Ericson et al 2003;Worthy et al 2010). Phylogenies based on molecular data indicate that Oscines originated on the Australian continental plate (Barker et al 2002;Ericson et al 2002).…”

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A new passerine bird from the early Oligocene of Poland

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We describe a nearly complete articulated specimen representing a new species and genus, Jamna szybiaki gen. et sp. nov., of an early Oligocene passeriform bird from Poland. In overall osteology, the specimen resembles extant Passeriformes but it differs from that group in several characters including the not bifurcated spina externa (sternum) and the absence of a hooked processus acrocoracoideus (coracoid). Its affinities within Passeriformes cannot be resolved at the moment due to the lack of characters that would support its position within either Oscines or Suboscines. For the first time in Paleogene passerines, wing and tail feathers are visible which provide new information on the external appearance of the bird. Its morphology suggests that it was a frugivorous/ insectivorous bird that lived in shrubs and forests.

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Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand

Cited by 48 publications

References 79 publications

Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand

Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand

The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography

A new passerine bird from the early Oligocene of Poland

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