Laricola
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| Laricola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | †Laricolidae |
| Genus: | †Laricola Mlíkovský, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Laricola elegans Milne-Edwards, 1868 | |
| Species | |
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Laricola is a genus of extinct gull-like birds that lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene in what is now Europe.[1]
Mlíkovský described the genus Laricola in 2002.[2] Milne-Edwards (1863–1868) had previously classified three of the genus' members (Laricola elegans, L. totanoides, and L. desnoyersii) as Larus.[3][4] The type species is Laricola elegans (Milne-Edwards, 1868). Laricola have "proportionally longer and more slender legs" than extant species of the family Laromorphae.[1]
Laricola fossils stem from France, and allegedly the Czech Republic.[1]
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