Pachydyptes
Pachydyptes | |
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Pachydyptes ponderosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Sphenisciformes |
Family: | Spheniscidae |
Subfamily: | †Palaeeudyptinae |
Genus: | †Pachydyptes Oliver, 1930 |
Species: | †P. ponderosus
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Binomial name | |
†Pachydyptes ponderosus Oliver, 1930
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Synonyms | |
Pachydyptes (Pachydyptes ponderosus), also known as the New Zealand giant penguin is an
G.G. Simpson, an evolutionary biologist, estimated a height of 140 to 160 cm (about 5 ft) and a weight of around 80 to possibly over 100 kg (Stonehouse, 1975). it was the second-tallest penguin ever, surpassed only by
G.G. Simpson had also claimed from the fossil records that the Pachydyptes along with many other early penguin species, descended from flying ancestors (Stonehouse, 1975).
Pachydyptes was slightly larger than
References
- Ksepka, D., Bertelli, S., & Giannini, N. (2006, October). The phylogeny of the living and fossil Sphenisciformes (penguins). Cladistics, 22(5), 412–441. Web of Science.
- Oliver, Walter R. B. (1930). [Genus Pachydyptes]. In: New Zealand birds, 85–86. Wellington: Fine Arts.
- Stonehouse, B. (1975). The Biology of Penguins. In Science (Vol. 189, pp. 448–452).
External links
- Wikinews: Students find fossilised giant penguin
- Geocities Geocities NatureLand 5218: Information and good reconstruction (in Japanese)