Mancallinae

Mancallinae is an extinct subfamily of prehistoric flightless alcids that lived on the Pacific coast of today's California and Mexico from the late Miocene epoch to the early Pleistocene. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Lucas auks after the scientist who described the first species, Frederic Augustus Lucas.

Mancallinae

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
AlcidaePBDB
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 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Miocene — about 9 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.7–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.6–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11.63 Mya4.7 Mya16.5 Mya900 ka

23 occurrences of Mancallinae 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

23 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

6 formations

San Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSan Diego — 32.74°N, 117.17°WSan Diego — 32.68°N, 117.07°WSan Diego — 32.57°N, 117.03°WSan Diego — 32.76°N, 117.13°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WSanta Margarita — 37.01°N, 122.01°WCapistrano — 33.44°N, 117.62°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°W

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The named rock units Mancallinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mancallinae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mancallinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Mancallinae, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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. 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 content1

Picture of Mancallinae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itAlcidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1946)