Mancalla

Mancalla is an extinct genus of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene.

Mancalla

Neil Adam Smith · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlcinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 32 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Mancalla on record, most of them in the Pliocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

32 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

San Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.71°N, 117.08°WSan Diego — 32.64°N, 117.05°WAlmejas — 28.11°N, 115.18°WAlmejas — 28.37°N, 115.18°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WNiguel — 33.47°N, 117.67°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WIchijiku — 35.27°N, 140.00°E

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The named rock units Mancalla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mancalla and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mancalla and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Mancalla, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

14 references

Each of the 32 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 2 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Mancalla

Credit
Neil Adam Smith
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAlcinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lucas 1901