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Pachydyptes
Taxonomy
Pachydyptes was named by Oliver (1930).
It was assigned to Anthropornithinae by Simpson (1946); to Palaeeudyptinae by Marples (1952) and Brodkorb (1963); to Sphenisciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006); and to Spheniscidae by Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Jenkins (1974), Carroll (1988), Mayr (2009), Park and Fitzgerald (2012) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Anthropornithinae by Simpson (1946); to Palaeeudyptinae by Marples (1952) and Brodkorb (1963); to Sphenisciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006); and to Spheniscidae by Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Jenkins (1974), Carroll (1988), Mayr (2009), Park and Fitzgerald (2012) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Pachydyptes Oliver p. 85 |
| 1933 | Pachydyptes Lambrecht p. 236 |
| 1939 | Pachydyptes Lowe |
| 1946 | Pachydyptes Simpson p. 41 |
| 1952 | Pachydyptes Marples p. 35 |
| 1963 | Pachydyptes Brodkorb p. 232 |
| 1971 | Pachydyptes Simpson p. 346 |
| 1974 | Pachydyptes Jenkins p. 293 |
| 1988 | Pachydyptes Carroll |
| 2002 | Pachdyptes Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Pachydyptes Ksepka et al. p. 416 figs. Figure 3 |
| 2009 | Pachydyptes Mayr p. 71 |
| 2012 | Pachydyptes Park and Fitzgerald p. 317 |
| 2020 | Pachydyptes Worthy and Nguyen p. 87 |
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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. †Pachydyptes Oliver 1930
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†Pachydyptes ponderosus Oliver 1930
†Pachydyptes simpsoni Jenkins 1974
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available