Gavia pusilla Shufeldt, 1915 Gaviella is an alleged North American Paleogene gaviiform which the holotype (and only known specimen) consists of the proximal end of a left carpometacarpus from Wyoming, United States.

However, Shufeldt mentioned the location and the age of the fossil was not recorded by J.B. Hatcher and his team who collected it.

Shufeldt originally classified this taxon as a species of the living genus Gavia being half the size of the common loon (Gavia immer) due to some similarity of the carpometacarpus of the aforementioned extant species.

This lead him to believe the specimen originated from the White River Formation.

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