Kaiika

Short description: Extinct genus of birds

Kaiika

Temporal range: Early Eocene

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Sphenisciformes
Genus:  | †Kaiika
Fordyce & Thomas, 2011
Species

* †K. maxwelli Fordyce & Thomas, 2011 (type)

Kaiika (Māori for "eater of fish") is an extinct genus of basal penguin from Early Eocene (Waipawan-Mangaorapan subage) deposits of South Canterbury, New Zealand. It is known only from a single humerus. It was found in 1998 by Dr Phillip Maxwell, a paleontologist and stratigrapher, from the Kauru Formation of the Canterbury Basin, near the Waihao River. It was first named by Ewan Fordyce and Daniel Thomas in 2011 and the type species is Kaiika maxwelli. Kaiika is one of the oldest penguins known.[1]

## References

1. ↑ R. Ewan Fordyce; Daniel Thomas (2011). "Kaiika maxwelli, a new Early Eocene archaic penguin (Sphenisciformes, Aves) from Waihao Valley, South Canterbury, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54 (1): 43–51. doi:10.1080/00288306.2011.536521.

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