| Brief Description |
A right tarsometatarsus or foot bone, made up of several fused bones, and a right tibiotarsus, the largest bone in a moa’s body. These two bones are tied together and labelled as one, suggesting they were dredged from the mudhole at Makirikiri together in 1936 or 1937 and are from the same bird.
Mantell’s Moa (Pachyornis geranoides) was one of the smallest moa species, just 1 m high at the shoulder and weighing 20 to 30 kg. It preferred to live around the edges of swamps and forests. Like all moa species, it was wiped out by human hunting about 500 years ago.
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