Laricola

Laricola is a genus of extinct gull-like birds that lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene in what is now Europe.

Taxonomy
Mlíkovský described the genus Laricola in 2002. Milne-Edwards (1863–1868) had previously classified three of the genus' members (Laricola elegans, L. totanoides, and L. desnoyersii) as Larus. The type species is Laricola elegans (Milne-Edwards, 1868). Laricola have "proportionally longer and more slender legs" than extant species of the family Laromorphae.

Laricola fossils stem from France, and allegedly the Czech Republic.

Species
The genus contains five species.

Laricola elegans (Milne-Edwards, 1868)

Laricola totanoides (Milne-Edwards, 1868)

Laricola desnoyersii (Milne-Edwards, 1863)

Laricola intermedia (De Pietri et al., 2014)

Laricola robusta (De Pietri et al., 2014)