Kairuku
| Kairuku Temporal range: | |
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| Artist's impression of Kairuku | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Genus: | †Kairuku Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| Kairuku waitaki Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 | |
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Kairuku is an extinct genus of penguin. It contains three species, K. grebneffi, K. waitaki and K. waewaeroa. This taxon is known from bones from 27 MYA (late Oligocene), from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand. It was historically referred to as Palaeeudyptes.
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