The Hunter Island Penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia.
It is known from a collection of subfossil bones from the Mare aux Songes swamp, a detailed sketch made by de Jossigny in 1770, a no less detailed description by Desjardins of a bird shot in 1836, and a number of brief reports about owls, the first being those of Van Westzanen in 1602 and Matelief in 1606.
He also named the extinct Kangaroo Island Emu (Dromaius baudinianus) in 1984 on the basis of subfossil bones.
It was described in 1991 from subfossil material collected in September 1982 by Storrs Olson, Helen James and others, from the Auwahi Cave on the southern slopes of Haleakalā, on the island of Maui.
By 1998 he spend on Fiji, where he found subfossil material of the flightless Viti Levu Giant Pigeon (Natunaornis gigoura), the Viti Levu Scrubfowl (Megapodius amissus), the Viti Levu Snipe (Coenocorypha miratropica), the Giant Fiji ground frog (Platymantis megabotoniviti), and the small freshwater crocodile Volia athollandersoni.
Fossil and subfossil shells of Turritella communis have been found in interglacial strata in the North Sea, from the Late Pliocene to the Quaternary Period.
Numerous subfossils have been found, including complete skulls as well as vertebrae and osteoderms from such places as Ambolisatra and Antsirabe.