Aves - Charadriiformes - Alcoidae

Alternative combination: Catarractes affinis

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1872. Notice of some new Tertiary and post-Tertiary birds. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 4(19-24):256-262

Belongs to Uria according to S. L. Olson and P. C. Rasmussen 2001

See also Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Marsh 1872, Watanabe et al. 2016, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Uria aalge, Uria antiqua, Uria brodkorbi, Uria lomvia, Uria onoi, Uria paleohesperis, Uria troile

Type specimen: YPM 845, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Bangor, which is in a Pleistocene marine claystone in Maine.

Distribution: found only at Bangor

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