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Palaeeudyptes
Taxonomy
Palaeeudyptes was named by Huxley (1859).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Simpson (1946), Marples (1952), Brodkorb (1963) and Tambussi et al. (2006); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006) and Mayr (2009); and to Spheniscidae by Huxley (1859), Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Simpson (1971), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero (2010), Acosta Hospitaleche (2014) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Palaeeudyptinae by Simpson (1946), Marples (1952), Brodkorb (1963) and Tambussi et al. (2006); to Sphenisciformes by Ksepka et al. (2006) and Mayr (2009); and to Spheniscidae by Huxley (1859), Lambrecht (1933), Lowe (1939), Simpson (1971), Simpson (1971), Carroll (1988), Myrcha et al. (2002), Jadwiszczak (2006), Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero (2010), Acosta Hospitaleche (2014) and Tambussi et al. (2023).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1859 | Palaeeudyptes Huxley p. 670 |
| 1905 | Eospheniscus Ameghino p. 132 |
| 1905 | Eosphaeniscus Wiman p. 250 |
| 1933 | Eospheniscus Lambrecht p. 232 |
| 1933 | Palaeeudyptes Lambrecht p. 235 |
| 1939 | Palaeeudyptes Lowe |
| 1946 | Eosphaeniscus Simpson p. 37 |
| 1946 | Palaeeudyptes Simpson p. 38 |
| 1952 | Palaeeudyptes Marples p. 28 |
| 1963 | Palaeeudyptes Brodkorb p. 231 |
| 1963 | Eosphaeniscus Brodkorb p. 235 |
| 1971 | Palaeeudyptes Simpson p. 334 |
| 1988 | Palaeondyptes Carroll |
| 2002 | Palaeeudyptes Myrcha et al. p. 21 |
| 2006 | Palaeeudyptes Jadwiszczak p. 20 |
| 2006 | Palaeeudyptes Ksepka et al. p. 416 figs. Figure 3 |
| 2006 | Palaeeudyptes Tambussi et al. p. 153 |
| 2009 | Palaeeudyptes Mayr p. 71 |
| 2010 | Palaeeudyptes Acosta Hospitaleche and Reguero p. 293 |
| 2014 | Palaeeudyptes Acosta Hospitaleche p. 557 |
| 2023 | Palaeeudyptes Tambussi et al. p. 272 |
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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. †Palaeeudyptes Huxley 1859
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†Palaeeudyptes antarcticus Huxley 1859
†Palaeeudyptes gunnari Wiman 1905
†Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha et al. 2002
†Palaeeudyptes marplesi Brodkorb 1963
Invalid names: Eosphaeniscus Wiman 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available