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List of works by Trevor Worthy

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Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

scientific article (publication date: 3 June 2008)

Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

scientific article (publication date: 23 May 2014)

Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 8 December 2009)

Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand

scientific article published in January 2007

Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2006)

A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

article

A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara (Sphenodon)

scientific article

Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand

scientific article

Identifying cliques of convergent characters: concerted evolution in the cormorants and shags

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird

scientific article

Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand

scholarly article

Prehistoric bird extinctions and human hunting

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2002)

Quaternary fossil faunas, overlapping taphonomies, and palaeofaunal reconstruction in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

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High-resolution coproecology: using coprolites to reconstruct the habits and habitats of New Zealand's extinct upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in the Punakaiki area, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

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

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Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2009)

Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

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AFFINITIES OF MIOCENE WATERFOWL (ANATIDAE: MANUHERIKIA, DUNSTANETTA AND MIOTADORNA) FROM THE ST BATHANS FAUNA, NEW ZEALAND

scientific article published in May 2008

A megafauna's microfauna: gastrointestinal parasites of New Zealand's extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

scientific article published in 2013

Osteology ofLeiopelma(Amphibia: Leiopelmatidae) and descriptions of three new subfossilLeiopelmaspecies

Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2013)

Quaternary fossil faunas of Otago, South Island, New Zealand

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Quaternary fossil faunas from caves on Mt Cookson, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

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A Large Fruit Pigeon (Columbidae) from the Early Miocene of New Zealand

scholarly article published in The Auk, July 2009

Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

scientific article

The effect of climate and environmental change on the megafaunal moa of New Zealand in the absence of humans

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A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary deposits in Fiji

scientific article (publication date: December 2001)

Palaeoecological information concerning members of the frog genusLeiopelma: Leiopelmatidae in New Zealand

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A reappraisal of the late Quaternary fossil vertebrates of Pyramid Valley Swamp, North Canterbury, New Zealand

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Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia

scientific article

An analysis of the distribution and relative abundance of moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

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The Quaternary fossil avifauna of Southland, South Island, New Zealand

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Contributions to New Zealand's Late Quaternary avifauna. II:Dendroscansor decurvirostris, a new genus and species of wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae)

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Scraps from an owl's table — predator activity as a significant taphonomic process newly recognised from New Zealand Quaternary deposits

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The fossil megapodes (Aves: Megapodiidae) of Fiji with descriptions of a new genus and two new species

scientific article published in December 2000

An early Miocene diversity of parrots (Aves, Strigopidae, Nestorinae) from New Zealand

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An extinct Pleistocene endemic mekosuchine crocodylian from Fiji

Faunal and floral remains from Fl, a cave near Waitomo

article by T. H. Worthy published December 1984 in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Sporormiella as a proxy for non-mammalian herbivores in island ecosystems

scholarly article

Evolution of the moa and their effect on the New Zealand flora

scientific article published in December 1993

Fish Remains, Mostly Otoliths, from the Non-Marine Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand

scientific article published in June 2012

Ancient DNA analyses reveal contrasting phylogeographic patterns amongst kiwi (Apteryx spp.) and a recently extinct lineage of spotted kiwi

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

A new species of the diving duckManuherikiaand evidence for geese (Aves: Anatidae: Anserinae) in the St Bathans Fauna (Early Miocene), New Zealand

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A lost link between a flightless parrot and a parasitic plant and the potential role of coprolites in conservation paleobiology

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships of the Australian Oligo–Miocene ratite Emuarius gidju Casuariidae

scientific article published on March 1, 2014

Australlus, a new genus for Gallinula disneyi (Aves: Rallidae) and a description of a new species from Oligo-Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia

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A New Fossil Species of Shearwater Puffinus from the Late Quaternary of the South Island, New Zealand, and Notes on the Biogeography and Evolution of the Puffinus gavia Superspecies

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Fossil skink bones from Northland, New Zealand, and description of a new species ofCyclodina, Scincidae

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