Aves - Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Parent taxon: Alcinae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Carroll 1988, del Hoyo et al. 2014, Mlikovsky 2002 and Olson and Rasmussen 2001
Sister taxa: Alcini, Alle, Brachyramphus, Cerorhinca, Mancalla, Pseudocepphus, Synthliboramphus, Uria
Subtaxa: Pinguinus alfrednewtoni Pinguinus impennis
Type: Alca impennis
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Canada (5: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador), Denmark (9), Faroe Islands (3), France (2), Gibraltar (2), Greenland (23), Iceland (6), Ireland (1), Isle of Man (2), Italy (4), Jersey (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (10), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Spain (3), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (19), United States (24: Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 127 collections each including a single occurrence
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