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Mancalla californiensis

Description

Mancallinae is an extinct subfamily of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico from the late Miocene epoch to the early Pleistocene (ranging from at least 7.4 million to 470,000 years ago). They are sometimes collectively referred to as Lucas auks after the scientist who described the first species, Frederic Augustus Lucas.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8464046https://www.gbif.org/species/8464046
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)206168https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=206168
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : Mancalla : Mancalla californiensis
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Alcidae : Mancalla : Mancalla californiensis
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Saurischia
-Theropoda
-NeotheropodaBakker 1986
-AverostraPaul 2002
-TetanuraeGauthier 1986
orderAvetheropodaPaul 1988
suborderCoelurosauriaHuene 1914
-ManiraptoraGauthier 1986
-ParavesSereno 1997
classAvesLinnaeus 1758
orderCharadriiformesHuxley 1867
-PanalcidaeSmith 2011
familyAlcidaeLeach 1820
subfamilyMancallinae
genusMancallaLucas 1901
speciesMancalla californiensisLucas 1901
Generic NameMancalla
Scientific NameMancalla californiensis Lucas, 1901
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Mancalla californiensisspeciesbelongs to Mancallastated without evidenceLucas, 1901
Mancalla californiensisspeciesbelongs to Mancallastated with evidenceWetmore, 1960
Mancalla californiensisspeciesbelongs to Mancallastated without evidenceHoward, 1970
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene
Last Recorded Appearance3.60 - 1.81 Ma
Cenozoic
Environmentmarine (based on Charadriiformes)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Theropoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Coelurosauria)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)
Primary Reference (PBDB)F. A. Lucas. 1901. A flightless auk, Mancalla californiensis, from the Miocene of California. Proceedings of the US National Museum 24(1245):133-134
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancalla_californiensis

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1901Mancalla californiensis Lucas p. 133 figs. Figure 1, 2
1933Mancalla californiensis Lambrecht p. 562
1946Mancalla californiensis Miller p. 32
1949Mancalla californiensis Howard p. 196
1949Mancalla californiensis Miller and Howard p. 224
1960Mancalla californiensis Wetmore p. 14
1970Mancalla californiensis Howard p. 2
2011Mancalla californiensis Smith p. 57

References

Lucas F. A. (1901) A flightless auk, Mancalla californiensis, from the Miocene of California, Proceedings of the US National Museum 24 1245, 133-134
Lambrecht K. (1933) Handbuch der Palaeornithologie, 1-1024
Miller L. (1946) The Lucas Auk appears again, Condor 48 1, 32-36
Howard H. (1949) New avian records for the Pliocene of California, Carnegie Instuitution of California 584, 179-200
Wetmore A. (1960) A classification for the birds of the world, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139 11, 1-37
Howard H. (1970) A review of the extinct avian genus Mancalla, Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 203, 1-12
Smith N. A. (2011) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae), ZooKeys 91, 1-116
F. A. Lucas (1901) A flightless auk, Mancalla californiensis, from the Miocene of California: Proceedings of the US National Museum 1245: 133--134 - via Catalogue of Life
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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