| Arthrodytes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Family: | Spheniscidae |
| Subfamily: | †Paraptenodytinae |
| Genus: | †Arthrodytes Ameghino 1905 |
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Arthrodytes is an extinct genus of penguins which contains a single species, whose remains have been recovered from the San Julian Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) of Patagonia.[1] Other authors report a younger age for the fossils recovered from the Early Miocene Gaiman and Monte León Formations.[2]
Together with the related genus Paraptenodytes, they form the subfamily Paraptenodytinae, which is not ancestral to modern penguins.[1]
References
- 1 2 Hospitaleche, Carolina Acosta (2005). "Systematic revision of Arthrodytes Ameghino, 1905 (Aves, Spheniscidae) and its assignment to the Paraptenodytinae". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 2005 (7): 404–14. doi:10.1127/njgpm/2005/2005/404.
- ↑ Arthrodytes at Fossilworks.org
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