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Mancalla californiensis

Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae

Taxonomy
Mancalla californiensis was named by Lucas (1901). Its type specimen is USNM 4976, a limb element (humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 3rd Street tunnel, which is in a Pliocene coastal shale in the Fernando Formation of California. It is the type species of Mancalla.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1901Mancalla californiensis Lucas p. 133 figs. Figure 1, 2
1930Mancalla californiensis Hay p. 344
1933Mancalla californiensis Lambrecht p. 562
1940Mancalla californiensis Wetmore p. 63
1942Mancalla californiensis Miller and DeMay p. 114
1946Mancalla californiensis Miller p. 32
1949Mancalla californiensis Howard p. 196
1949Mancalla californiensis Miller and Howard p. 224
1956Mancalla californiensis Miller p. 618
1956Mancalla californiensis Wetmore p. 81
1960Mancalla californiensis Wetmore p. 14
1970Mancalla californiensis Howard p. 2
2011Mancalla californiensis Smith p. 57

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
orderCharadriiformesHuxley 1867
superfamilyAlcoidae(Stejneger 1885)
familyAlcidaeLeach 1820
subfamilyAlcinaeLeach 1820
genusMancalla
speciescaliforniensis

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.

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Diagnosis
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