Miomancalla
Extinct genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miomancalla is an extinct genus of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California in the Miocene epoch. It contained two species, M. howardi and M. wetmorei.[1]
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Miomancalla | |
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Holotype of M. howardi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Clade: | †Mancallinae |
Genus: | †Miomancalla |
Type species | |
Miomancalla wetmorei Howard, 1976 | |
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