Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, the best-preserved penguin skeleton from the Eocene-Oligocene of Antarctica: taxonomic and evolutionary remarks

• Published in: Geobios
• Main Authors: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Masson
• Subjects: Fossil Penguin; Antarctica; Systemactics; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Acosta; Alicia; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Huxley; Seymour; Seymour Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/31413

A new fossil penguin skeleton from the La Meseta Formation collected at the locality DPV 13/84 (Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula) from the crinoid horizon located 40 m above the base of the 145 m-thick Submeseta Allomember (Late Eocene–Early Oligocene?) is described. The specimen is assigned to t...