Enigmatic morphological disparity in tarsometatarsi of Antarctic giant penguins

• Published in: Polish Polar Research
• Main Authors: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Jadwiszczak, Piotr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Academy of Sciences. Committee on Polar Research
• Subjects: SPHENISCIDAE; ANTARCTICA; EOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Acosta; Alicia; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Argentine; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/105054

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