†Petralca austriaca Mlikovsky 1987 (loon)
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Full reference: J. Mlikovsky. 1987. Eine neue Alkenart (Aves: Alcidae) aus dem Ober-Oligozän Österreiches. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 88:131-147
Belongs to Petralca according to U. B. Gölich and G. Mayr 2018
See also Mlikovsky 1987, Mlikovsky 2002 and Wijnker and Olson 2009
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Inv.-Nr. 1980/25, a partial skeleton (part and counterpart of incomplete skeleton with both wings and fragments of ribs). Its type locality is Traun-Pucking, which is in an Aquitanian offshore claystone in the Ebelsberg Formation of Austria.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Traun-Pucking
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