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Eudyptula
Taxonomy
Eudyptula was named by Bonaparte (1856). It is extant.
It was assigned to Spheniscinae by Simpson (1946); and to Spheniscidae by Carroll (1988), Baird (1992), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Thomas et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Spheniscinae by Simpson (1946); and to Spheniscidae by Carroll (1988), Baird (1992), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Thomas et al. (2023).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1856 | Eudyptula Bonaparte |
| 1946 | Eudyptula Simpson p. 69 |
| 1988 | Eudyptula Carroll |
| 1992 | Eudyptula Baird p. 24 |
| 2003 | Eudyptula Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 446 |
| 2014 | Eudyptula del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Eudyptula Clements et al. |
| 2023 | Eudyptula Thomas et al. |
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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. Eudyptula Bonaparte 1856
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Eudyptula minor Forster 1781 [little penguin]
Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae Shaw 1826
†Eudyptula wilsonae Thomas et al. 2023
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Waipipian to the top of the Holocene or 3.70000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.0 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Waipipian | New Zealand (North Island) | E. wilsonae (219829) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | New Zealand (North Otago) | E. minor (87789) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | New Zealand (South Island) | E. minor (87810 87814) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | E. minor (100554 194616 194618 194619 195150 198088) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Tasmania) | E. novaehollandiae (138319) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | E. minor (138410) |