Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 211202

Full reference: H. Howard. 1981. A new species of murre, genus Uria, from the Late Miocene of California (Aves: Alcidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 80(1):1-12

Belongs to Uria according to J. Watanabe et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Uria aalge, Uria affinis, Uria lomvia, Uria onoi, Uria paleohesperis, Uria troile

Type specimen: PB7960, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore