Anthropodyptes

Anthropodyptes

Taxobox
name = "Anthropodyptes"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Middle Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Sphenisciformes
familia = Spheniscidae
subfamilia = Palaeeudyptinae?
genus = "Anthropodyptes"
genus_authority =
species = "A. gilli"
binomial = "Anthropodyptes gilli"
binomial_authority = Simpson, 1959

"Anthropodyptes" is a poorly known monotypic genus of extinct penguin. It contains the single species "Anthropodyptes gilli", known from a Middle Miocene humerus from Australia. The bone is somewhat similar to those found in members of the New Zealand genus "Archaeospheniscus" and thus this genus might, like them, belong to the subfamily Palaeeudyptinae.

References

* Simpson, George Gaylord (1971): A review of the pre-Pleistocene penguins of New Zealand. "Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" 144: 319–378. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/1086/1/B144a05.pdf PDF fulltext]


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