Petralca

Petralca; Temporal range: Oligocene - Miocene, 23.03–20.43 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Holotype specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gaviiformes
Family:	Gaviidae
Subfamily:	†Petralcinae
Genus:	†Petralca
Type species
	†Petralca austriaca; Mlíkovský, 1987

Petralca is an extinct genus of loon found in Oligocene and Miocene deposits of Austria. The type and only species, Petralca austriaca, was described in 1987.^[1] It was originally described as an auk but was reinterpreted as a member of Gaviiformes by Göhlich & Mayr (2018).^[2]

References

↑ Jiří Mlíkovský (1987). "Eine Neue Alkenart (Aves: Alcidae) aus dem Ober-Oligozän Österreichs" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Ser. A. 88: 131–147.
↑ Ursula B. Göhlich; Gerald Mayr (2018). "The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. in press: 1. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1333610.

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[Petralca-1] Jiří Mlíkovský (1987). "Eine Neue Alkenart (Aves: Alcidae) aus dem Ober-Oligozän Österreichs" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Ser. A. 88: 131–147.

[2] Ursula B. Göhlich; Gerald Mayr (2018). "The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. in press: 1. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1333610.