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Palaeeudyptes marplesi

Reptilia - Spheniscidae

Taxonomy
Palaeeudyptes marplesi was named by Brodkorb (1963). Its type specimen is OM C.50.25-47, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Burnside, Burnside Marl, which is in a Kaiatan marine marl in the Burnside Formation of New Zealand.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. klekowsii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Palaeeudyptes marplesi Brodkorb p. 231
1971Palaeeudyptes marplesi Simpson p. 335
1991Palaeeudyptes marplesi Fordyce p. 1177
2009Palaeeudyptes marplesi Mayr p. 71
2010Palaeeudyptes marplesi Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero p. 293

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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)
familySpheniscidaeBonaparte 1831
genusPalaeeudyptes
speciesmarplesi

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.

†Palaeeudyptes marplesi Brodkorb 1963
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available