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Panalcidae

Reptilia - Charadriiformes

Taxonomy

Panalcidae was named by Smith (2011) [Actually spelled Pan-Alcidae]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Smith (2011), Smith and Mayr (2013) and Smith (2014).

Subtaxa

Alcodes, Alcodes ulnulus, Divisulcus, Mancalla milleri, Pliolunda diegense

Synonyms

Mancalla milleri was named by Howard (1970). Its type specimen is LACM 2185, a limb element (left femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Reynard Way and Curlew Street, which is in a Piacenzian shallow subtidal sandstone in the San Diego Formation of California.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Smith (2011).
Alcodes ulnulus was named by Howard (1968). Its type specimen is LACM 18277, a limb element (left ulna), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is LACM 1945, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian marine siltstone in the Monterey Formation of California.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Smith (2011).
Pliolunda diegense was named by Miller (1937). Its type specimen is UCMP 33409, a limb element (right femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP V3717, which is in a Pliocene coastal conglomerate in the San Diego Formation of California.

It was recombined as Mancalla diegense by Miller and Howard (1949), Wetmore (1956), Miller (1956), Wetmore (1960) and Howard (1970); it was considered a nomen dubium by Smith (2011); it was recombined as Mancalla diegensis by Olson (1981), Howard (1982), Chandler (1990) and Boessenecker (2011).
Alcodes was named by Howard (1968).

It was considered a nomen dubium by Smith (2011).

It was assigned to Mancallinae by Howard (1968) and Olson (1985); and to Alcidae by Howard and Barnes (1987) and Carroll (1988).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1937	Pliolunda diegense Miller p. 376 figs. Fig. 1, 2
1940	Pliolunda diegense Wetmore p. 64
1942	Pliolunda diegense Miller and DeMay p. 115
1949	Mancalla diegense Miller and Howard p. 222
1956	Mancalla diegense Miller p. 618
1956	Mancalla diegense Wetmore p. 81
1960	Mancalla diegense Wetmore p. 14
1968	Alcodes ulnulus Howard
1968	Alcodes Howard p. 18 figs. Fig. 2 G, H, L
1968	Alcodes ulnulus Howard p. 18 figs. Fig. 2 G, H, L
1970	Mancalla diegense Howard p. 3
1970	Mancalla milleri Howard p. 7 figs. Figure 1, A-B
1980	Mancalla milleri Howard
1981	Mancalla diegensis Olson p. 98
1981	Mancalla milleri Olson p. 98
1982	Mancalla diegensis Howard p. 12
1985	Alcodes Olson p. 183
1985	Alcodes ulnulus Olson p. 183
1987	Alcodes Howard and Barnes p. 3
1988	Alcodes Carroll
1990	Mancalla diegensis Chandler p. 150
1990	Mancalla milleri Chandler p. 150
2011	Mancalla diegensis Boessenecker p. 19 figs. 8.3, 8.4
2011	Panalcidae Smith p. 7
2013	Panalcidae Smith and Mayr p. 777
2014	Panalcidae Smith p. 227

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
—	Panalcidae
—	Panalcidae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Unr. Panalcidae Smith 2011

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G. †Divisulcus Smith 2013

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†Divisulcus demerei Smith 2013

Invalid names: Alcodes Howard 1968 [nomen dubium], Alcodes ulnulus Howard 1968 [nomen dubium], Mancalla milleri Howard 1970 [nomen dubium], Pliolunda diegense Miller 1937 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available