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Due to recent (mid-2018) and repeated disruptive editing of the temporal range for the species described in this article, I am inserting on this Talk Page the following quotes from the main reference upon which this article is based ("Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes" by Storrs L. Olson and Helen F. James, 1991).
"Radiocarbon dates on material from sinkholes near Barbers Point fall in the latter half of the Holocene"; and regarding material collected at Ulupau Head: "These sediments are probably considerably younger than 800,000 yr . . . and older than 120,000 yr . . .". Barbers Point being the type locality, and the species' remains listed as having been found both there and at Ulupau Head.
In reference to all species described in the paper: "These remains are mostly of late Holocene age."
Given the above, and additional comments by the authors such as "Prehistoric avian extinctions in the Hawaiian Islands are attributed mainly to predation and environmental degradation by Polynesians and introduced predators" and, most tellingly, "Had not Homo sapiens arrived in these islands some 16 centuries ago, these birds would still be alive today", I feel it is accurate to describe this species (as well as the others described in the paper) as being all but contemporaneous with modern birds -- that is, with a temporal range of "Late Holocene".
Kiwikiu (talk) 02:26, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
