凱魯庫企鵝屬
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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凱魯庫企鵝屬（屬名：Kairuku，在毛利語中意為「（帶回）食物（的）潛水者」）是已滅絕的大型企鵝，包括3個物種：（K. grebneffi）、彎嘴凱魯庫企鵝（K. waitaki）及長腿凱魯庫企鵝（K. waewaeroa）。化石發現於地層年代漸新世晚期（約2,500 - 2,700萬年前）的紐西蘭地層組。
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