The southernmost Miocene penguin (Aves, Spheniscidae) from South America

MLP 00-III-5-1 is a distal end of a right tibiotarsus belonging to a fossil penguin. It comes from the Cerro Águila Conglomerate (53°50'14.85"S, 67°47'29.78"W) near Rio Grande City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. These beds overly sediments referable to the Cabo Peña Formation, pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia, Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/75921
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/75921
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Argentina
Cerro ÁGuila Conglomerate
Miocene
Patagonia
Spheniscidae
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:MLP 00-III-5-1 is a distal end of a right tibiotarsus belonging to a fossil penguin. It comes from the Cerro Águila Conglomerate (53°50'14.85"S, 67°47'29.78"W) near Rio Grande City, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. These beds overly sediments referable to the Cabo Peña Formation, probably similar in age to that of the Middle Miocene Carmen Silva Formation. The fossil described here is the only fossil penguin from this unit and represents the southernmost record of a Neogene penguin in South America. © 2012 E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart Germany.