Muriwaimanu
| Muriwaimanu Temporal range: Paleocene,
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| Genus: | Muriwaimanu Mayr et al., 2018
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| Waimanu tuatahi Ando, Jones & Fordyce, 2006
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Muriwaimanu is an extinct genus of early penguin.
Discovery and naming
Discovered in the Kokoamu Greensand near the Waipara River, in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1980, the name Muriwaimanu comes from Māori for "backwards". One species is known, Muriwaimanu tuatahi, which was originally referred to as Waimanu tuatahi.[1][2]
See also
References
- ^ Slack, K.E., Jones, C.M., Ando, T., Harrison G.L., Fordyce R.E., Arnason, U. and Penny, D. (2006). "Early Penguin Fossils, plus Mitochondrial Genomes, Calibrate Avian Evolution." Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23(6): 1144-1155. doi:10.1093/molbev/msj124 PDF fulltext Supplementary Material
- ^ Gerald Mayr; Vanesa L. De Pietri; Leigh Love; Al A. Mannering; R. Paul Scofield (2018). "A well-preserved new mid-Paleocene penguin (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1398169. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1398169.