Antillean cave rail

The Antillean cave rail (Nesotrochis debooyi), also known as DeBooy's rail, is an extinct species of flightless bird which occurred on Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.^[1]

Antillean cave rail Temporal range: Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Leg and foot bones
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	†Nesotrochidae
Genus:	†Nesotrochis
Species:	†N. debooyi
Binomial name
†Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore, 1918
Location of Puerto Rico.

Extinction

Bone fragments of this species were first unearthed by archaeologist Theodoor de Booy in kitchen midden deposits on the Richmond estate near Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands in July 1916 and described by Alexander Wetmore in 1918. The Antillean cave rail might have become extinct before the arrival of the Europeans.^[2]