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Saint Bathans Fauna : ウィキペディア英語版 | Saint Bathans Fauna
The Saint Bathans Fauna, also referred to as the St Bathans Fauna, is found in the lower Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group of Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It comprises a suite of fossilised prehistoric animals from the late Early Miocene (Altonian) period, with an age range of 19–16 million years ago. The layer in which the fossils are found derives from littoral zone sediments deposited in a shallow, freshwater lake, with an area of 5600 km2. The lake was bordered by an extensive floodplain containing herbaceous and grassy wetland habitats with peat-forming swamp–woodland. At that time the climate was warm and the surrounding vegetation was characterised by casuarinas, eucalypts and palms as well as podocarps, araucarias and southern beeches. The fossiliferous layer has been exposed at places along the Manuherikia River and at other sites in the vicinity of the historic gold mining town of Saint Bathans. The fauna consists of a variety of vertebrates, including fish, a crocodilian, a sphenodont, geckos, skinks, and several kinds of birds, especially waterbirds. A basal form of kiwi, ''Proapteryx'', is known from there. ==Mammals== Uniquely in regards to modern New Zealand's dearth of land mammals there is a basal theriiforme mammal, the Saint Bathans mammal. Several species of mystacine bats are also known.〔Trevor Worthy, Hand SJ, TH Worthy, M Archer, JP Worthy, AJD Tennyson, RP Scofield, 2013. Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: 1442-1448.〕 This suggests that small land mammals were a common component of New Zealand's fauna in the Miocene.
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