Arthrodytes

Arthrodytes; Temporal range: Late Eocene-Early Oligocene or Early Miocene; ~23–16 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Sphenisciformes
Family:	Spheniscidae
Subfamily:	†Paraptenodytinae
Genus:	†Arthrodytes; Ameghino 1905
Species
	A. andrewsi (type);

Arthrodytes is an extinct genus of penguins which contains a single species, whose remains have been recovered from the San Julian Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) of Patagonia.^[1] Other authors report a younger age for the fossils recovered from the Early Miocene Gaiman and Monte León Formations.^[2]

Together with the related genus Paraptenodytes, they form the subfamily Paraptenodytinae, which is not ancestral to modern penguins.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Hospitaleche, Carolina Acosta (2005). "Systematic revision of Arthrodytes Ameghino, 1905 (Aves, Spheniscidae) and its assignment to the Paraptenodytinae". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 2005 (7): 404–14. doi:10.1127/njgpm/2005/2005/404.
^ Arthrodytes at Fossilworks.org