Aves - Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1970. Miocene penguins from Victoria, Australia, and Chubut, Argentina. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 31:17-24

Belongs to Pseudaptenodytes according to T. Park 2014

See also Fordyce 1991, Harrison and Hooker 2010, Simpson 1970 and Worthy and Nguyen 2020

Sister taxon: Pseudaptenodytes minor

Type specimen: NMV P26668, a limb element (partial left humerus)

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Spring Creek, near Minhamite (Miocene of Australia)

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