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Description

Uria is a genus of seabirds in the auk family known in Britain as guillemots, in most of North America as murres, and in Newfoundland and Labrador as turr. These are medium-sized birds with mainly brown or black plumage in the breeding season. They breed on the coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2481338	https://www.gbif.org/species/2481338
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	83399	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83399

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : Uria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
-	Panalcidae	Smith 2011
family	Alcidae	Leach 1820
genus	Uria	Brisson 1760

Scientific Name

Uria Brisson, 1760

Name Published In

Brisson, M. J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Bauche, Paris. Vol. Tome 1: j-xxiv , 1-526, j-lxxiij , Pl. I-XXXVII.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcinae	stated without evidence	Lambrecht, 1933
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Howard, 1978
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcinae	stated without evidence	Howard, 1982
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Olson, 1985
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcini	stated without evidence	Smith, 2011
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcinae	stated without evidence	del Hoyo et al., 2014
Uria	genus	belongs to Alcidae	stated without evidence	Clements et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (43%)

First Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 7.2 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Charadriiformes)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. L. Olson and P. C. Rasmussen. 2001. Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90:233-365

Common Name(s)

ウミガラス, Ob. Sill-/spetsbergsgrissla, Ob. Sillgrissla/spetsbergsgrissla, Sillgrissla/spetsbergsgrissla, Murres

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uria

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Uria aalge species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Common Murre	27	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Uria affinis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Uria brodkorbi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Uria lomvia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Thick-billed Murre	4	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Uria paleohesperis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Uria troile ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aria Pallas, 1811	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : *Aria*
Uria Möhring, 1758	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : *Uria*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1760	Uria Brisson
1902	Uria Hay p. 524
1933	Uria Lambrecht p. 563
1978	Uria Howard p. 20
1982	Uria Howard p. 3
1985	Uria Olson p. 183
1992	Uria Guthrie p. 323
2011	Uria Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14
2014	Uria del Hoyo et al.
2017	Uria Clements et al.

References

Olson S. L., Rasmussen P. C. (2001) Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 233-365

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024

Howard H. (1978) Late Miocene marine birds from Orange County, California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 290, 1-26

Howard H. (1982) Fossil birds from Tertiary marine beds at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, with discriptions of two species of the genera Uria and Cepphus (Aves: Alcidae), Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 341, 1-15

Olson S. L. (1985) The fossil record of birds, Avian Biology VIII, 79-256

Guthrie D. A. (1992) A late Pleistocene avifauna from San Miguel Island, California, Science Series (Los Angeles) 36, 319-327

Smith N. A. (2011) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae), ZooKeys 91, 1-116

del Hoyo J., Collar N. J., et al (2014) HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines, 1-904

Clements J. F., Schulenberg T. S., et al (2017) , The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ornith., 6 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Markov,G. S. (1937) Die Parasiten von Uria lomvia auf der Insel Novaja Semlja - via Phthiraptera.info

Ballard,J. T.,Ring,R. A. (1979) The ectoparasites of some marine birds from Bamfield Marine Station, British Columbia, with particular reference to the common murre (Uria aalge (Pont.)) - via Phthiraptera.info

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SOF (2007) Holarktis Fåglar, version 2. SOF:s Taxonomikommittés officiella lista över Holarktis fåglar - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 - via World Register of Marine Species

Brisson, M.-J.; Dwight, J.; Laetvaerennydt; Martinet, F. N.; Tucker, M. B.; Vaernewyck. (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés : a laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms quils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires. 6: 1-543, pls: I-VI. - via World Register of Marine Species

Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

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