Re: [dinosaur] Eocene penguin cranium from Antarctica

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

(I don't have access so I don't know if there is a new taxon named.)

 

Nadia Haidr & Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche (2017)

A new penguin cranium from Antarctica and its implications for body size diversity during the Eocene.

Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 286(2): 229-233

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2017/0698

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2017/00000286/00000002/art00008

 

Although penguins have a very abundant fossil record in Antarctica, very few cranial elements have been found so far, and in all the cases the specimens are incomplete. We describe a new cranium of a medium-sized penguin from the late Eocene Submeseta Formation in Marambio/ Seymour Island, Antarctica. Its morphology allows us to establish a common cranial pattern for all known Eocene taxa (including South American, Antarctic and probably Oceanian species), with very different proportions between cranium and post-cranium from those of modern penguins. These Paleogene fossils exhibit a small neurocrania, extremely elongated bills, large occipital condyles, and strong cranio-mandibular articulations.

 

I just downloaded this very short paper. There is no new taxon named; the "cranium" is just the postorbital part of a skull.