Anthropornis
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Anthropornis is a genus of giant penguin that lived 45-33 million years ago, during the Late Eocene and the earliest part of the Oligocene.[1]
Description
Anthropornis reached Script error: No such module "convert". in length from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail, and Script error: No such module "convert". in weight, making it the largest penguin of the Eocene epoch. There is also an estimate that one specimen of Anthropornis could have reached a body length of Template:Cvt and Template:Cvt in weight.[2] Fossils of it have been found in the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island off the coast of Antarctica and in New Zealand. By comparison, the largest modern penguin species, the emperor penguin, is just Script error: No such module "convert". long.
The type species, Anthropornis nordenskjoldi, had a bent joint in the wing, probably a vestigial trait from its flying ancestors.
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- Prehistoric bird genera
- Eocene birds
- Oligocene birds
- Extinct penguins
- Priabonian genus first appearances
- Rupelian genus extinctions
- Prehistoric birds of Antarctica
- Paleogene Antarctica
- Fossils of Antarctica
- Fossil taxa described in 1905
- Fossils of New Zealand