Aves - Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Parent taxon: Alcidae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also del Hoyo et al. 2014, Howard 1982, Lambrecht 1933, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Smith and Mayr 2013, Watanabe et al. 2020, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1956 and Wijnker and Olson 2009
Sister taxa: Aethiinae, Alca, Cepphus, Fratercula, Fraterculinae, Mancallinae, Miocepphus, Nautilornithinae, Petralcinae
Subtaxa: Alcini Alle Brachyramphus Cerorhinca Mancalla Pinguinus Pseudocepphus Synthliboramphus Uria
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Canada (10: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec), Denmark (9), Faroe Islands (3), France (6), Germany (1), Gibraltar (2), Greenland (27), Iceland (6), Ireland (2), Italy (5), Japan (6), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (13), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Spain (5), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (29), United States (69: Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (17: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Germany (1), Mexico (2), United States (5: California, Maryland)
Total: 247 collections including 336 occurrences