Kairuku
| Kairuku Temporal range: late Oligocene | |
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| Artist's impression of Kairuku | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Genus: | Kairuku Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| Kairuku waitaki Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 | |
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Kairuku is an extinct genus of penguin.[1] It contains two species, K. grebneffi and K. waitaki.[2] This taxon is known from bones from 27 MYA (late Oligocene), from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.[1]
References
- 1 2 Ksepka, D.T., Fordyce, R.E., Ando, T. and Jones, C.M. (2012). "New fossil penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Oligocene of New Zealand reveal the skeletal plan of stem penguins". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 235–254. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.652051.
- ↑ Giant Prehistoric Penguin was Bigger Than an Emperor | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
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