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{{Short description|Extinct genus of birds}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Petralca''
| fossil_range = [[Oligocene]] - [[Miocene]], {{fossilrange|23.03|20.43}}
| image = Petralca Vienna.jpg
| image_caption = Holotype specimen
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Petralca
| parent_authority = [[Jiří Mlíkovský|Mlíkovský]] & Kovar, 1987
| authority = Mlíkovský & Kovar, 1987
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Petralca austriaca'''''
| type_species_authority = Mlíkovský, 1987
}}
'''''Petralca''''' is an extinct genus of [[loon]] found in [[Oligocene]] and [[Miocene]] deposits of [[Austria]]. The type and only species, '''''Petralca austriaca''''', was described in 1987. It is the only member of the Petralcinae subfamily.<ref name=Petralca>{{Cite journal |author=Jiří Mlíkovský |year=1987 |title=Eine Neue Alkenart (Aves: Alcidae) aus dem Ober-Oligozän Österreichs |url=http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/045-1987-OligocenePetralcafrromAustria.pdf |journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Ser. A |volume=88 |pages=131–147 |access-date=2018-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232951/http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/045-1987-OligocenePetralcafrromAustria.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Originally thought to be the oldest representative of [[auk]] in Europe, it was reinterpreted as a member of [[Gaviiformes]] by Göhlich & [[Gerald Mayr|Mayr]] (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ursula B. Göhlich |author2=Gerald Mayr |year=2018 |title=The alleged early Miocene Auk ''Petralca austriaca'' is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=8 |pages= 1076–1083|doi= 10.1080/08912963.2017.1333610 |bibcode=2018HBio...30.1076G |s2cid=90729728 }}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Gaviiformes]]
[[Category:Neogene birds of Europe]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1987]]
[[Category:Fossils of Austria]]
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