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- Plotopteridae abstract "Plotopteridae is the name of an extinct family of flightless seabirds from the order Suliformes. Related to the gannets and boobies, they exhibited remarkable convergent evolution with the penguins, particularly with the now extinct giant penguins. That they lived in the North Pacific, the other side of the world from the penguins, has led to them being described at times as the Northern Hemisphere's penguins, though they were not closely related. More recent studies have shown, however, that the shoulder-girdle, forelimb and sternum of plotopterids differ significantly from those of penguins, so comparisons in terms of function may not be entirely accurate.Their fossils have been found in California, Washington, British Columbia and Japan. They ranged in size from that of a large cormorant (such as a Brandt's cormorant), to being 2 m long. They had shortened wings designed for underwater wing-propelled pursuit diving (like penguins or the now extinct great auk), a body skeleton similar to that of the darter and the skull similar to that of a sulid.The earliest known Plotopteridae species, Phocavis maritimus lived in the mid-Eocene, but most of the known species lived in the early and mid-Miocene, after which it appears they went extinct. That they went extinct at the same time as the giant penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which also coincided with the radiation of the seals and dolphins, has led to speculation that the expansion of marine mammals was responsible for the extinction of the Plotopteridae, though this has not been formally tested.".
- Plotopteridae class Bird.
- Plotopteridae kingdom Animal.
- Plotopteridae order Suliformes.
- Plotopteridae phylum Chordate.
- Plotopteridae thumbnail Copepteryx_BW.jpg?width=300.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageExternalLink 1359-plotopterid-in-canada.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageID "1449823".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageLength "4426".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageOutDegree "52".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageRevisionID "693457434".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Booby.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Brandts_cormorant.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bird_families.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_animals_of_the_United_States.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_flightless_birds.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleogene_birds_of_North_America.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Plotopteridae.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Copepteryx.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Cormorant.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Darter.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Dolphin.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Eocene.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Gannet.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Great_auk.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Hildegarde_Howard.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Hokkaidornis.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Journal_of_Vertebrate_Paleontology.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Marine_mammal.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Miocene.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Ocean.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Palaeeudyptinae.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Penguin.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Phocavis.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Pinniped.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Plotopterum.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Science_(journal).
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Seabird.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Skeleton.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Skull.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Stemec.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Sulidae.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Suliformes.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink The_Condor_(journal).
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Tonsala.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink Washington_(state).
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLink File:Tonsala_hildegardae.png.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "Plotopteridae".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "ancient marine birds".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "plotopterid".
- Plotopteridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "plotopterids".
- Plotopteridae classis Bird.
- Plotopteridae familia "Plotopteridae".
- Plotopteridae familiaAuthority "Howard, 1969".
- Plotopteridae fossilRange Eocene.
- Plotopteridae fossilRange Miocene.
- Plotopteridae imageCaption "Copepteryx".
- Plotopteridae name "Plotopterids".
- Plotopteridae ordo Suliformes.
- Plotopteridae phylum Chordate.
- Plotopteridae regnum "Animalia".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Copepteryx".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Hokkaidornis".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Phocavis".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Plotopterum".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Stemec".
- Plotopteridae subdivision "Tonsala".
- Plotopteridae subdivisionRanks Genus.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_book.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_journal.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Plotopteridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Plotopteridae subject Category:Bird_families.
- Plotopteridae subject Category:Extinct_animals_of_the_United_States.
- Plotopteridae subject Category:Extinct_flightless_birds.
- Plotopteridae subject Category:Paleogene_birds_of_North_America.
- Plotopteridae subject Category:Plotopteridae.
- Plotopteridae hypernym Family.
- Plotopteridae type Animal.
- Plotopteridae type Bird.
- Plotopteridae type Eukaryote.
- Plotopteridae type Species.
- Plotopteridae type Thing.
- Plotopteridae type Q19088.
- Plotopteridae type Q729.
- Plotopteridae comment "Plotopteridae is the name of an extinct family of flightless seabirds from the order Suliformes. Related to the gannets and boobies, they exhibited remarkable convergent evolution with the penguins, particularly with the now extinct giant penguins. That they lived in the North Pacific, the other side of the world from the penguins, has led to them being described at times as the Northern Hemisphere's penguins, though they were not closely related.".
- Plotopteridae label "Plotopteridae".
- Plotopteridae sameAs Q145724.
- Plotopteridae sameAs Plotopteridae.