A new early miocene penguin skull from patagonia: Taxonomic and paleobiological value
In this work, a new skull (MLG 3400) exhumed from the Chenque Formation (early Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) (Fig. 1) is assigned to Spheniscidae cf. Spheniscus Brisson, 1760 (Fig. 2). The significance of this finding is that it increases the penguin fossil record in the area, which is...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/81141 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/81141 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Pingüino Fósil Mioceno Patagonia Cráneo Spheniscus https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | In this work, a new skull (MLG 3400) exhumed from the Chenque Formation (early Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) (Fig. 1) is assigned to Spheniscidae cf. Spheniscus Brisson, 1760 (Fig. 2). The significance of this finding is that it increases the penguin fossil record in the area, which is scant and consisting of only isolated remains. |
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