Family Spheniscidae Scientific name Pachydyptes ponderosus Rank Species | Class Aves Phylum Chordata Order Sphenisciformes | |
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Genus PachydyptesOliver, 1930 Similar Anthropornis, Icadyptes salasi, Palaeeudyptinae, Waimanu, Archaeospheniscus | ||
Pachydyptes is an extinct genus of penguin. It contains the single species Pachydyptes ponderosus, the New Zealand giant penguin. This taxon is known from a few bones from Late Eocene (37 to 34 MYA) rocks in the area of Otago.
With a height of 140 to 160 cm (about 5 ft) and weighing around 80 to possibly over 100 kg, it was the second-tallest penguin ever, surpassed only by Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi in height, but probably not in weight.
Pachydyptes was slightly larger than Icadyptes salasi, the best-identified of the giant penguins.
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