Latagallina naracoortensis (van Tets, 1974:214)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Progura naracoortensis van Tets, 1974:214

Conservation Status

Last record: Late Pleistocene?

Distribution

Australia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: SAM. P.l 7856 ("an almost complete right tarsometatarsals")

Type locality: A small cave disclosed in Henschke's Quarry, Naracoorte, South Australia.

Paratypes:

SAM P.I7I52 (a right tibiotarsus)

SAM P. 17153 (a left humerus)

SAM P. 1 7154 (distal end of a left humerus)

SAM P. 17157 (proximal end of right femur)

SAM P.17876. (distal part of right tibiotarsus)

SAM P. 1 7877 (right ulna)

SAM P. 1 7878 (left humerus)

SAM P. 1 7879 (distal part of left ulna)

SAM P.l 81 81 (a cervical vertebra)

SAM P.I8I82 (distal part of left ulna)

SAM P. 181 83 (proximal and distal parts of a right humerus)

SAM P. 1 81 84 (left radius)

SAM P.l 81 85 (proximal part of a right tarsometatarsus)

SAM P.l 8 1 86 (distal part of a right femur)

SAM P.1S187 (anterior fragment of synsacrum)

SAM P. 1 6700 (a right coracoid)

Referred Specimens:

QM F2769 (fragment of tarsometatarsus)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

van Tets, Gerry F. (1974). A revision of the fossil Megapodiidae (Aves), including a description of a new species of Progura De Vis. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 98(4): 213-224.

Other references:

Bartholomai, Alan. (1977). The fossil vertebrate fauna from Pleistocene deposits at Cement Mills, Gore, Southeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 18(1): 41-51.

Pledge, Neville S. (1990). The upper fossil fauna of the Henschke fossil cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(1): 247-262.

Reed, Elizabeth H. and Bourne, Steven J. (2000). Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the south east region of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124(2): 61-90.

Reed, Elizabeth H. and Bourne, Steven J. (2009). Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrate Sites of the South East Region of South Australia II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133(1): 30-40.

Roberts, Richard G, Flannery, Timothy F., Ayliffe, Linda, Yoshida, Hiroyuki, Olley, Jon M., Prideaux, Gavin J., Laslett, Geoff M., Baynes, Alexander, Smith, M. A., Jones, Rhys I. and Smith, Barton L. (2001). New ages for the last Australian megafauna: Continent-wide extinction about 46,000 years ago. Science 292(5523): 1888-1892. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1060264

Shute, Elen, Prideaux, Gavin J. and Worthy, Trevor H. (2017). Taxonomic review of the late Cenozoic megapodes (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) of Australia. Royal Society Open Science 4: 170233 (72 pp.).

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.

Worthy, Trevor H. and Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T. (2020). An annotated checklist of the fossil birds of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 144(1): 66-108.

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