Fossil penguin beaks from the Eocene of Antarctica: new materials from La Meseta Formation

• Main Authors: Haidr, Nadia Soledad, Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
• Subjects: Sphenisciformes; Eocene; anatomy; geometric morphometry; Antarctica; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Fósiles; Alicia; Acosta; Pingüino; Antarc*; Antártida
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/57242

New materials coming from different levels of the La Meseta and Submeseta formations, including the most complete beak of a penguin (MLP 14-XI-27-27) from Antarctica, are described here. A new morpho-geometric approach, based on Principal Component Analysis, and Elliptic Fourier Analysis, was perfor...