Palaeeudyptes klekowskii

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- PalaeeudyptesPBDB
- 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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Palaeeudyptes klekowskii on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Palaeeudyptes klekowskii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeeudyptes klekowskii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Palaeeudyptes klekowskii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Palaeeudyptes gunnari4 sites
- Anthropornis grandis3 sites
- Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi3 sites
- Delphinornis3 sites
- "Mesetaichthys" sp.2 sites
- Archaeospheniscus wimani2 sites
- Basilosauridae2 sites
- Delphinornis larseni2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Marambiornis exilis2 sites
- Notolophus arquinotiensis2 sites
- Pelagornithidae2 sites
- Pristiophorus laevis2 sites
- Squalus2 sites
- Squatina2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Acanthopterygii indet.1 site
- Antarctodarwinella1 site
- Antarctodolops dailyi1 site
- Antarctodon sobrali1 site
- Anthropornis1 site
- Aprosdokitos mikrotero1 site
- Archaeoceti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, 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
3 references- Annotated catalogue of the fossil vertebrates from Antarctica housed in the Museo de la Plata, Argentina. I. Birds and Land Mammals from La Meseta Formation (Eocene - Early Oligocene)4
- Weddellian marine/coastal vertebrates diversity from a basal horizon (Ypresian, Eocene) of the Cucullaea I Allomember, La Meseta formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, Antarctica1
- Taxonomic revision of Eocene Antarctic penguins based on tarsometatarsal morphology1
Each of the 6 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 content2

Picture of Palaeeudyptes klekowskii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- santsclaus945
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPalaeeudyptes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Myrcha et al. 2002