Palapteryx

Palapteryx (Gr., 'ancient apteryx'), a genus of fossil birds whose remains are found in the river-silt deposits of New Zealand, associated with the gigantic Dinornis, and which, like it, resembled in the form of the sternum, and the structure of the pelvis and legs, the living wingless apteryx. Palapteryx, however, seems to have possessed rudimentary wings. See MOA.