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Mancalla

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.

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Mancalla
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
Holotype specimen of M. vegrandis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Clade: Mancallinae
Genus: Mancalla
Type species
M. californiensis
Lucas, 1901
Species
  • Mancalla californiensis Lucas, 1901
  • Mancalla cedrosensis Howard, 1971
  • Mancalla lucasi Smith, 2011
  • Mancalla vegrandis Smith, 2011
Holotype of M. lucasi source ↗

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

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