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 had previously classified three of the genus' members as Larus. The type species is Laricola elegans. 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.

The genus contains five species.
Laricola elegans
Laricola ''totanoides
Laricola desnoyersii
Laricola intermedia
Laricola robusta''