Palaeeudyptes

Palaeeudyptes is an extinct genus of large penguins, currently containing four accepted species. They were probably larger than almost all living penguins, with the smaller species being about the size of an emperor penguin, and the largest species, Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, estimated to reach 2 m long and weighed up to 116 kg (256 lb).

Palaeeudyptes

User AHA on sv.wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpheniscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sphenisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 25.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 25 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 33 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya25.2 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

33 occurrences of Palaeeudyptes on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

33 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

10 formations

Submeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WLa Meseta — 64.29°S, 56.69°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WBurnside — 44.49°S, 170.68°EConcord — 44.49°S, 170.68°ELeticia — 54.45°S, 66.44°WOtotara Limestone — 45.19°S, 170.88°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.87°S, 170.71°EWhaingaroa — 38.14°S, 174.82°EBlanche Point — 30.13°S, 138.47°ERio Turbio — 51.59°S, 72.37°W

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The named rock units Palaeeudyptes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeeudyptes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeeudyptes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Palaeeudyptes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

17 references

Each of the 33 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 5 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Palaeeudyptes

Credit
User AHA on sv.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpheniscidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huxley 1859