Arthrodytes

Arthrodytes
Temporal range: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene or Early Miocene
~23–16 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Subfamily: †Paraptenodytinae
Genus: †Arthrodytes
Ameghino 1905
Species

Arthrodytes is an extinct genus of penguins which contains a single species, whose remains have been recovered from the San Julian Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) of Patagonia.[1] Other authors report a younger age for the fossils recovered from the Early Miocene Gaiman and Monte León Formations.[2]

Together with the related genus Paraptenodytes, they form the subfamily Paraptenodytinae, which is not ancestral to modern penguins.[1]

  1. ^ a b Hospitaleche, Carolina Acosta (2005). "Systematic revision of Arthrodytes Ameghino, 1905 (Aves, Spheniscidae) and its assignment to the Paraptenodytinae". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 2005 (7): 404–14. doi:10.1127/njgpm/2005/2005/404.
  2. ^ Arthrodytes at Fossilworks.org