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Anthropornis
Taxonomy
Anthropornis was named by Wiman (1905).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Brodkorb (1963); to Anthropornithinae by Simpson (1946), Tambussi et al. (2006); to Spheniscidae by Wiman (1905), Ameghino (1905), Lambrecht (1933), Simpson (1971), Jenkins (1985), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Jadwiszczak and Mörs (2011), Jadwiszczak (2012); and to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Brodkorb (1963); to Anthropornithinae by Simpson (1946), Tambussi et al. (2006); to Spheniscidae by Wiman (1905), Ameghino (1905), Lambrecht (1933), Simpson (1971), Jenkins (1985), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Jadwiszczak and Mörs (2011), Jadwiszczak (2012); and to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche et al. (2019).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1905 | Anthropornis Ameghino p. 149 |
| 1905 | Pachypteryx Ameghino p. 150 |
| 1905 | Pachypteryx Wiman p. 240 |
| 1905 | Anthropornis Wiman p. 249 |
| 1905 | Pachypteryx Wiman p. 250 figs. Pl. XII, Fig. 3 |
| 1933 | Anthropornis Lambrecht p. 233 |
| 1933 | Pachypteryx Lambrecht p. 235 |
| 1946 | Pachypteryx Simpson p. 37 |
| 1946 | Anthropornis Simpson p. 38 |
| 1963 | Anthropornis Brodkorb p. 234 |
| 1971 | Anthropornis Simpson p. 365 |
| 1985 | Anthropornis Jenkins p. 183 |
| 1988 | Anthropornis Carroll |
| 2002 | Anthropornis Myrcha et al. p. 17 |
| 2006 | Anthropornis Jadwiszczak p. 11 |
| 2006 | Anthropornis Ksepka et al. p. 416 figs. Figure 3 |
| 2006 | Anthropornis Tambussi et al. p. 151 |
| 2011 | Anthropornis Jadwiszczak and Mörs p. 272 |
| 2012 | Anthropornis Jadwiszczak p. 263 |
| 2019 | Anthropornis Acosta Hospitaleche et al. p. 604 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Anthropornis Wiman 1905
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†Anthropornis grandis Wiman 1905
†Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi Wiman 1905
Invalid names: Pachypteryx Wiman 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 56.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Antarctica | A. grandis (100414) | |
| Ypresian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | A. grandis (63550) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Antarctica | A. grandis (38816) | |
| Lutetian - Bartonian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | A. grandis, A. nordenskjoeldi (53666) | |
| Bartonian | Antarctica | A. nordenskjoldii, Pachypteryx grandis (77358) | |
| Bartonian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | A. grandis (207777) | |
| Priabonian | Antarctica | A. grandis, A. nordenskjoeldi (100411) A. sp., A. grandis, A. nordenskjoeldi (100410) | |
| Priabonian | Antarctica (Seymour Island) | A. sp. (63553) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Antarctica | A. sp. (88443 88445) |