Larus pristinus Shufeldt 1915

Aves - Charadriiformes - Laridae

Alternative combination: Larus (Larus) pristinus

Full reference: R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110

Belongs to Larus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Lambrecht 1933, Shufeldt 1915, Wetmore 1940 and Wetmore 1956

Sister taxa: Larus (Larus), Larus argentatus, Larus atricilla, Larus brachyrhynchus, Larus cachinnans, Larus californicus, Larus canus, Larus chalcopterus, Larus delawarensis, Larus dolnicensis, Larus dominicanus, Larus elmorei, Larus fuscus, Larus glaucescens, Larus glaucus, Larus heermanni, Larus hutchinsii, Larus hyperboreus, Larus lacus, Larus leucopterus, Larus marinus, Larus occidentalis, Larus oregonus, Larus perpetuus, Larus raemdonckii, Larus robustus, Larus smithsonianus, Larus utunui

Type specimen: YPM 935, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is Lower Willow Creek, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in Oregon.

Distribution: found only at Lower Willow Creek

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