The holotype specimen is a fossil tarsometatarsus and phalanx. It was identified by a right tarsometatarsus. "Gettyia" is known from a single right tarsometatarsus. The thighbone is short relative to the tarsometatarsus. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 1910. B689Ib, a left tarsometatarsus, is the holotype. The tarsometatarsus of one fossil specimen is long. It also had a disproportionately large tarsometatarsus. The tarsometatarsus and toes of most birds are covered in two types of scales. The tibiotarsus is comparatively long and the tarsometatarsus short. The bird foot also contains one or two metatarsals not fused in the tarsometatarsus. Likewise short and robust was the tarsometatarsus of the foot. "Kurrartapu johnnguyeni" was described from a proximal tarsometatarsus recovered from the Riversleigh site in Queensland. The species was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus. Walker never described the fusion of the tarsometatarsus as opposite, but rather as "Only partial".