Mancalla
Appearance
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Mancalla Temporal range: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
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Holotype specimen of M. vegrandis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Clade: | †Mancallinae |
Genus: | †Mancalla |
Type species | |
M. californiensis Lucas, 1901
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Species | |
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Mancalla is an extinct genus of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Smith, N.A. (2011). "Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae)". ZooKeys (91): 1–116. Bibcode:2011ZooK...91....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.91.709. PMC 3084493. PMID 21594108.