Miomancalla

Miomancalla is an extinct genus of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California in the Miocene epoch. It contained two species, M. howardi and M. wetmorei.^[1]

Miomancalla Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype of M. howardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Clade:	†Mancallinae
Genus:	†Miomancalla
Type species
Miomancalla wetmorei Howard, 1976
Species
M. howardi M. wetmorei

Skull of M. howardi compared with the skull of the great auk