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Australca grandis Brodkorb 



Australca grandis Brodkorb, Florida Geol. Surv. Rep. Invest. No. 14, No- 

 vember 1955, p. 27, figs. 24, 29. 



Pliocene (Bone Valley formation) : Near Brewster, Polk County, 

 Florida. 



Genus URIA Brisson 



Uria Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 52; vol. 6, p. 70. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Uria Brisson ^ Colymbus aalgc Pontoppidan. 



Uria aalge (Pontoppidan) : Common Murre 



Colymbus aalge Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, vol. i, 1763, p. 621, pi. 26. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene (Palos Verdes sand) : 

 Playa del Rey, and Mussel Rock, San Mateo County, California. 



Uria affinis (Marsh) 



Catarractes affinis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, 

 p. 259. 



Pleistocene : Railroad cut on bank of Penobscot River, near Bangor, 

 Maine, 



Uria antiqua (Marsh) 



Catarractes antiquus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 49, March 1870, 

 p. 213. 



Miocene : Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. 



Genus MIOCEPPHUS Wetmore 



Miocepphus Wetmore, Journ. Morph., vol. 66, Jan. 2, 1940, p. 35. Type, by 

 monotypy, Miocepphus mccltmgi Wetmore. 



Miocepphus mcclungi Wetmore 



Miocepphus mcclungi Wetmore, Journ. Morph., vol. 66, Jan. 2, 1940, p. 35, 

 figs. 11-14. 



Miocene (Calvert formation, zone 12) : Near the mouth of Parker 

 Creek, Calvert County, Maryland.^ 



Genus BRACHYRAMPHUS Brandt 



Brachyramphus M. Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg, vol. 2, 

 No. 22, Mar. 19, 1837, col. 346. Type, by subsequent designation, Colymbus 

 marmoratus Gniclin (Gray, 1840). 



^ Two records. 



