Kairuku

Kairuku Temporal range: late Oligocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Artist's impression of Kairuku
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Sphenisciformes
Genus:	Kairuku Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012
Type species
Kairuku waitaki Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012
Species
K. grebneffi Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012 Kairuku waitaki Ksepka, Fordyce, Ando & Jones, 2012

Kairuku is an extinct genus of penguin. It contains two species, K. grebneffi and K. waitaki. This taxon is known from bones from 27 MYA (late Oligocene), from the Kokoamu Greensand Formation of New Zealand.