Enigmatic morphological disparity in tarsometatarsi of giant penguins from the Eocene of Antarctica

• Published in: Polish Polar Research
• Main Authors: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Jadwiszczak, Piotr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Acad Sciences Committee Polar Research
• Subjects: Spheniscidae; Antarctica; Eocene; Morphology; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Argentine; Seymour; Seymour Island; Alicia; Acosta; Antarc*; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/104983

The only record of the Paleogene Antarctic Sphenisciformes comes from the Eocene La Meseta Formation (Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula). The analysis of tarso− metatarsi attributed to the genus Anthropornis (“giant” penguins) from the Argentine, Pol− ish and Swedish collections revealed an intrig...