diff --git a/colorbleed/plugins/maya/load/_load_animation.py b/colorbleed/plugins/maya/load/_load_animation.py
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index f4bcd6881d..0000000000
--- a/colorbleed/plugins/maya/load/_load_animation.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-import colorbleed.maya.plugin
-
-
-class AbcLoader(colorbleed.maya.plugin.ReferenceLoader):
-    """Specific loader of Alembic for the avalon.animation family"""
-
-    families = ["colorbleed.animation",
-                "colorbleed.camera",
-                "colorbleed.pointcache"]
-    representations = ["abc"]
-
-    label = "Reference animation"
-    order = -10
-    icon = "code-fork"
-    color = "orange"
-
-    def process_reference(self, context, name, namespace, data):
-
-        import maya.cmds as cmds
-        from avalon import maya
-
-        cmds.loadPlugin("AbcImport.mll", quiet=True)
-        # Prevent identical alembic nodes from being shared
-        # Create unique namespace for the cameras
-
-        # Get name from asset being loaded
-        # Assuming name is subset name from the animation, we split the number
-        # suffix from the name to ensure the namespace is unique
-        name = name.split("_")[0]
-        namespace = maya.unique_namespace("{}_".format(name),
-                                          format="%03d",
-                                          suffix="_abc")
-
-        # hero_001 (abc)
-        # asset_counter{optional}
-
-        nodes = cmds.file(self.fname,
-                          namespace=namespace,
-                          sharedReferenceFile=False,
-                          groupReference=True,
-                          groupName="{}:{}".format(namespace, name),
-                          reference=True,
-                          returnNewNodes=True)
-
-        # load colorbleed ID attribute
-        self[:] = nodes
-
-        return nodes