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Palaeeudyptes
Taxonomy
Palaeeudyptes was named by Huxley (1859).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Simpson (1946), Marples (1952), Brodkorb (1963) and Tambussi et al. (2006); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006) and Mayr (2009); and to Spheniscidae by Huxley (1859), Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Simpson (1971), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero (2010), Acosta Hospitaleche (2014) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Simpson (1946), Marples (1952), Brodkorb (1963) and Tambussi et al. (2006); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006) and Mayr (2009); and to Spheniscidae by Huxley (1859), Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Simpson (1971), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero (2010), Acosta Hospitaleche (2014) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1859 | Palaeeudyptes Huxley p. 670 |
1905 | Eospheniscus Ameghino p. 132 |
1905 | Eosphaeniscus Wiman p. 250 |
1933 | Eospheniscus Lambrecht p. 232 |
1933 | Palaeeudyptes Lambrecht p. 235 |
1939 | Palaeeudyptes Lowe |
1946 | Eosphaeniscus Simpson p. 37 |
1946 | Palaeeudyptes Simpson p. 38 |
1952 | Palaeeudyptes Marples p. 28 |
1963 | Palaeeudyptes Brodkorb p. 231 |
1963 | Eosphaeniscus Brodkorb p. 235 |
1971 | Palaeeudyptes Simpson p. 334 |
1988 | Palaeondyptes Carroll |
2002 | Palaeeudyptes Myrcha et al. p. 21 |
2006 | Palaeeudyptes Jadwiszczak p. 20 |
2006 | Palaeeudyptes Ksepka et al. p. 416 figs. Figure 3 |
2006 | Palaeeudyptes Tambussi et al. p. 153 |
2009 | Palaeeudyptes Mayr p. 71 |
2010 | Palaeeudyptes Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero p. 293 |
2014 | Palaeeudyptes Acosta Hospitaleche p. 557 |
2023 | Palaeeudyptes Tambussi et al. p. 272 |
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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.
G. †Palaeeudyptes Huxley 1859
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†Palaeeudyptes antarcticus Huxley 1859
†Palaeeudyptes gunnari Wiman 1905
†Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha et al. 2002
†Palaeeudyptes marplesi Brodkorb 1963
Invalid names: Eosphaeniscus Wiman 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875 |
Collections (26 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Ypresian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | P. gunnari (63549) | |
Ypresian - Lutetian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | P. gunnari (63551) | |
Lutetian | Antarctica | P. gunnari (211926) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | P. klekowskii, P. gunnari (53666) | |
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Chile | P. sp. (99479) | |
Bartonian | Argentina (Tierra del Fuego) | Pansphenisciformes indet. (59977) | |
Bartonian | Antarctica | Eosphaeniscus gunnari (77358) | |
Bartonian - Priabonian | Antarctica | P. gunnari (31173) | |
Kaiatan | New Zealand | P. sp., P. antarcticus, P. marplesi (74594) | |
Priabonian | Antarctica | P. klekowskii (100413 100419) P. sp., P. klekowskii, P. gunnari (100410 100411) | |
Priabonian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | P. gunnari (100475) P. klekowsii, P. gunnari (100187) P. klekowskii (63553) P. klekowskii, P. gunnari (100290) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | Australia (South Australia) | P. marplesi (50365) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | Antarctica | P. sp. (207513) | |
Whaingaroan | New Zealand (North Island) | P. sp. (88024) | |
Whaingaroan | New Zealand | Palaeudyptes antarcticus (74587) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Antarctica | Eosphaeniscus sp. (88443 88444 88446) | |
Duntroonian | New Zealand (North Otago) | P. sp. (63049) | |
Waitakian | New Zealand | P. sp., P. antarcticus (74595) |