Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Alternative spelling: Otolithus (Dentex)
Parent taxon: Sparidae according to W. Schwarzhans et al. 2017
See also Agassiz 1835, Arambourg 1927, Bannikov 2014, Casier 1946, Casier 1966, Heinrich 1969, Leriche 1926, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Schwarzhans 1978, Schwarzhans 1980, Schwarzhans 2007, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1979, Steurbaut 1984, Stinton and Nolf 1970 and Vicens and RodrÃguez-Perea 2003
Sister taxa: Archosargus, Boops, Box, Calamus, Crenidens, Crommyodus, Evynnis, Lagodon, Pagellinae, Pagrus, Paracalamus, Pshekharus, Rhythmias, Sparinae, Sparus, Stenotomus
Subtaxa: Dentex (Cheimerius) Dentex (Polysteganus) Dentex balonggensis Dentex barbarus Dentex breviceps Dentex crassispinus Dentex elegans Dentex faujasii Dentex gregarius Dentex leptacanthus Dentex microdon Dentex nobilis Dentex pentagonalis Dentex pulcher Dentex subnobilis Dentex tardinensis Dentex ventralis Otolithus (Dentex) dubius
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (5 collections), Italy (2), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (5), Germany (1), India (1), Italy (3), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1)
• Neogene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (3)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 50 collections including 59 occurrences
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