Coturnix novaezelandiae
The New Zealand quail, or koreke in Māori, is an extinct quail species endemic to New Zealand. The male and female were similar, except the female was lighter. The first scientist to describe it was Sir Joseph Banks when he visited New Zealand on James Cook's first voyage. Terrestrial and temperate, this species inhabited lowland tussock grassland and open fernlands. The first specimen to be obtained by a European was collected in 1827 by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard on Dumont D'Urville's voyage. It most likely went extinct due to diseases from introduced game birds.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- New Zealand quailPBDB
- Sits inside
- CoturnixPBDB
- Diet
- granivorePBDB, for Phasianidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Phasianidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Phasianidae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Coturnix novaezelandiae on record, most of them in the Holocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
26 occurrences- Pleistocene8%
- Holocene92%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Coturnix novaezelandiae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coturnix novaezelandiae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Coturnix novaezelandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Cyanoramphus20 sites
- Gallirallus australis15 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica14 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae13 sites
- Rattus exulans13 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae12 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus12 sites
- Callaeas cinereus11 sites
- Tadorna variegata11 sites
- Turnagra capensis11 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae10 sites
- Mystacina robusta10 sites
- Sphenodon10 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae9 sites
- Chenonetta finschi9 sites
- Petroica australis9 sites
- Rhipidura fuliginosa9 sites
- Anthornis melanura8 sites
- Oligosoma lineoocellatum8 sites
- Passer domesticus8 sites
- Philesturnus carunculatus8 sites
- Puffinus gavia8 sites
- Sceloglaux albifacies8 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Coturnix novaezelandiae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand20
- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand3
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand3
Each of the 26 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Coturnix novaezelandiae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coturnix novaezelandiae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCoturnix through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quoy and Gaimard 1830