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Pakudyptes hakataramea

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Pakudyptes hakataramea was named by Ando et al. (2024). Its type specimen is OU 21977, a limb element (nearly complete left humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hakataramea Quarry, which is in an Oligocene marine limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2024Pakudyptes hakataramea Ando et al.
2024Pakudyptes hakataramea Robinson et al. p. 575

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
—Sphenisciformes(Sharpe 1891)
genusPakudyptes
specieshakataramea

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.

†Pakudyptes hakataramea Ando et al. 2024
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
T. Ando et al. 2024Pakudyptes is smaller than all other previously described penguin taxa except Eudyptula and Eretiscus. It differs from those penguins in having the following characters: bipartition of tricipital fossa is incomplete, shaft of humerus is narrow and straight with craniocaudally thick proximal portion, insertion scar for m. supracoracoideus is short and running parallel to the long axis of humerus, olecranon of ulna is round and tab-like.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:40:01
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:40:01
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: Late/Upper Oligocene or 27.30000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04New Zealand (South Island) Pakudyptes hakataramea (type locality: 173285)