| Proapteryx Temporal range: early Miocene
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| Illustration of holotype femur | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Apterygiformes |
| Family: | Apterygidae |
| Genus: | †Proapteryx Worthy et al. 2013[1] |
| Species | |
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†Proapteryx micromeros Worthy et al. 2013 | |
Proapteryx micromeros is an extinct kiwi known from the 16–19 million-year-old early Miocene sediments of the St Bathans Fauna of Otago, New Zealand.[1][2]
- ^ a b Worthy, Trevor H.; et al. (2013). "Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves" (PDF). Paleornithological Research 2013, Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Egan, Joanna (15 January 2014). "NZ kiwi made in Australia?". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 2015-02-27.