Laricola

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Laricola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family:† Laricolidae
Genus:† Laricola
Mlíkovský, 2002
Type species
Laricola elegans
Species

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Laricola is a genus of extinct gull-like birds that lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene in what is now Europe. [1]

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Taxonomy

Mlíkovský described the genus Laricola in 2002. [2] Milne-Edwards (1863–1868) had previously classified three of the genus' members (Laricola elegans, L.totanoides, and L.desnoyersii) as Larus . [3] [4] The type species is Laricola elegans (Milne-Edwards, 1868). Laricola have "proportionally longer and more slender legs" than extant species of the family Laromorphae. [1]

Laricola fossils stem from France, and allegedly the Czech Republic. [1]

Species

The genus contains five species. [1]

Laricola elegans (Milne-Edwards, 1868)

Laricolatotanoides (Milne-Edwards, 1868)

Laricoladesnoyersii (Milne-Edwards, 1863)

Laricola intermedia (De Pietri et al., 2014)

Laricola robusta (De Pietri et al., 2014)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Costeur, Loïc; Güntert, Marcel; Mayr, Gerald (2011). "A revision of the Lari (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (4): 812–828. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..812D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.586663. ISSN   0272-4634.
  2. ↑ Mlíkovský, Jiří (2002). Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Prague: Ninox Press.
  3. ↑ Milne-Edwards, A. (1863). "Memoire sur la distribution geologique des oiseaux fossiles et description de quelques especes nouvelles". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 20: 132–176.
  4. ↑ Milne-Edwards, A. (1867–1868). Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques pour servir à l'histoire des oiseaux fossiles de la France, vol. 1. Paris: Victor Masson et fils.
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