Kumimanu
(Redirectum de Kumimanu biceae)
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Classis : Aves
Ordo : Sphenisciformes
Sharpe, 1891
Genus : Kumimanu
Mayr et al., 2017
Species : K. biceae
Mayr et al., 2017
Ordo : Sphenisciformes
Sharpe, 1891
Genus : Kumimanu
Mayr et al., 2017
Species : K. biceae
Mayr et al., 2017
Kumimanu (nomen a Geraldo Mayr et al. anno 2017 statutum) est genus avium exstinctarum ordinis Sphenisciformium, quae aevo Palaeocaeno tardiori vivebant. Species typica Kumimanu biceae ab auctoribus eisdem descripta est ex ossibus fossilibus in ora maritima vici Hampden prope oppidum Oamaru insulae Australis Novozelandensis.
Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]
- Gerald Mayr, R. Paul Scofield, Vanesa L. De Pietri, Alan J. D. Tennyson, "A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes" in Nature: Communications 8 (2017): 1927.