Dinornithiformes

Dinornis sp.

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Classis: Aves
Informal group: Saurornithes
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Ornithurae
Subclassis: Carinatae
Infraclassis: Neornithes
Parvclassis: Palaeognathae
Ordo: †Dinornithiformes
Familiae (3): Dinornithidae - Emeidae - Megalapterygidae

Name

Dinornithiformes

Selected references

• Rawlence, N.J.; Cooper, A. 2012 (Online) 2013 (Print): Youngest reported radiocarbon age of a moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) dated from a natural site in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 43(2): 100-107. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2012.658817 reference page 
• Worthy, T.H.; Scofield, R.P. 2012: Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised. New Zealand journal of zoology, 39(2): 87-153. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2012.665060 reference page 
• Wood, J.R. et al. 2013: A megafauna’s microfauna: gastrointestinal parasites of New Zealand’s extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). PLoS ONE, 8(2): e57315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057315 reference page 

Additional references

• Brassey CA, Holdaway RN, Packham AG, Anné J, Manning PL, et al. (2013) More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes). PLoS ONE 8(12): e82668. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082668
• Holdaway, R.N.; Worthy, T.H.; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2001: A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand journal of zoology, 28: 119–187. (PDF)
• Worthy, T.H. 1990: An analysis of the distribution and relative abundance of moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes). New Zealand journal of zoology, 17: 213–241.
• Worthy, T.H.; Edwards, A.R.; Millener, P.R. 1991: The fossil record of moas (Aves: Dinornithiformes) older than the Otira (last) Glaciation. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 21: 101–118.

Vernacular names

English: Moas
español: Moas
français: Moas
Māori: Moa
suomi: Moalinnut
українська: Моаподібні