Little bush-moa
- Description
- This subfossil moa bone is the left fibula of a little bush moa. Dr Julius Haast was the director of Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. One of the ways he built up its excellent collections was by exchanging material with other museums around the world. There is no record that he exchanged any material with RAMM in return for the bones in 1874 so they may have been purchased. It is possible that these specimens were collected at Glenmark, north of Christchurch, in 1869.
- Accession Loan No.
- B2616
- Simple Name
- fossil: bird, sub fossil skeleton
- Full Name
- Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen): DINORNITHIDAE: little bush-moa: left fibula
- Collector / Excavator
- Haas, Julius Dr ex Canterbury Museum
- Collection Country
- New Zealand
- Common Name
- little bush-moa
- Family
- DINORNITHIDAE
- Genus
- Anomalopteryx
- Species
- didiformis
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Collection Contintent
- Oceania
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Family Group
- Created At
- 2016-10-13 15:46:48
- Updated At
- 2020-01-28 11:44:02
