Genus of birds
Laricola is a genus of extinct gull-like birds that lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene in what is now Europe.
Taxonomy.
Mlíkovský described the genus "Laricola" in 2002. Milne-Edwards (1863–1868) had previously classified three of the genus' members ("Laricola elegans", "L." "totanoides," and "L." "desnoyersii)" as "Larus". The type species is "Laricola elegans" (Milne-Edwards, 1868). Laricola have "proportionally longer and more slender legs" than extant species of the family "Laromorphae".
"Laricola" fossils stem from France, and allegedly the Czech Republic.
Species.
The genus contains five species.
"Laricola elegans" (Milne-Edwards, 1868)
"Laricola" "totanoides" (Milne-Edwards, 1868)
"Laricola" "desnoyersii" (Milne-Edwards, 1863)
"Laricola intermedia" (De Pietri et al., 2014)
"Laricola robusta" (De Pietri et al., 2014)
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