Eudyptes

Eudyptes is a genus of penguins whose members are collectively called crested penguins. The exact number of species in the genus varies between four and eight depending on the authority, and a Chatham Islands species became extinct in recent centuries. All are black and white penguins with yellow crests, red bills and eyes, and are found on Subantarctic islands in the world's southern oceans. All lay two eggs, but raise only one young per breeding season; the first egg laid is substantially smaller than the second.

Eudyptes

Jerzy Strzelecki · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpheniscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sphenisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 24 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 16 of 24 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–980 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences980 ka–840 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences840 ka–700 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140 ka–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences3 Mya11.7 ka4.2 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Eudyptes on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

24 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Horcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WHillgrove — 45.13°S, 170.97°ETangahoe — 39.59°S, 174.20°E

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The named rock units Eudyptes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Eudyptes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 24 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Eudyptes

Credit
Jerzy Strzelecki
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eudyptes chrysolophus · l-jz:JZ:12

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpheniscidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vieillot 1816