Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration.
Reason: This "reconstruction" is entirely erroneous and should not be used. First, the animal in question was a far much heavier species (the plumpest known penguin species alive or extinct). Second, the color pattern is adopted 1:1 from Aptenodytes, which is a spheniscine genus; most spheniscines lack such coloration (i.e. it is an autapomorphy of Aptenodytes). Pachydyptes was a palaeeudyptine and thus almost certainly looked less than Aptenodytes than any living penguin does. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of Wikiproject Palaeontology on the English Wikipedia. Note that this image may be appropriate to illustrate obsolete paleontological views.
摘要
描述Pachydyptes ponderosus.jpg
English: A reconstruction of New Zealand Giant Penguins (Pachydyptes ponderosus)
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