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Taxonomy
Icadyptes salasi was named by Clarke et al. (2007). Its type specimen is MUSM 897, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ullujaya Valley, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine sandstone in the Otuma Formation of Peru.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2007 | Icadyptes salasi Clarke et al. p. 11545 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2008 | Icadyptes salasi Acosta Hospitaleche and Tambussi p. 124 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Icadyptes salasi Clarke et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. Acosta Hospitaleche and C. Tambussi 2008 | Beak forming more than two-thirds of
the skull length, fusion of the premaxillae and palatines, axis with an elongate hypophysis terminating in a greatly mediolaterally expanded disk-like plate, a deep ovoid fossa on the lateral surface of the acrocoracoid process, humerus straight and broad, metacarpal I with a flat carpal trochlea, and metacarpals II and III subequal in distal extent (Clarke et al., 2007). |
Measurements
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983 | |||||
Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Priabonian | Peru (Ica) | Icadyptes salasi (type locality: 73818) |