Miomancalla
| Miomancalla Temporal range: Miocene
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| Holotype of M. howardi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Clade: | †Mancallinae |
| Genus: | †Miomancalla |
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| Miomancalla wetmorei Howard, 1976
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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]
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.
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