El Modena (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Orange County, California (33.8° N, 117.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.2° N, 111.6° W (Wright 2013)

When: Monterey Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous shale

• chalky diatomaceous shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1919. Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) Formations. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 13-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186021: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.06.2017, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• According to a supplemental note in Jordan (1927:13), the description of S. vertebralis was mistakenly based on a photograph of a goby from the Miocene of Vienna, Austria. Jordan stated that the specimen is not a goby and placed the Austrian specimen in the genus Sebastavus.
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unclassified
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Dreprandus lestes n. gen. n. sp.
Dreprandus lestes n. gen. n. sp.
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Lutjanidae
"Lutianus hagari n. sp." = Lutjanus
"Lutianus hagari n. sp." = Lutjanus
 Perciformes - Scorpaenidae
"Rhomarchus ensiger n. gen. n. sp." = Scorpaena ensiger
"Rhomarchus ensiger n. gen. n. sp." = Scorpaena ensiger Jordan and Gilbert 1919 scorpionfish
 Perciformes - Brotulidae
"Eclipes veternus n. gen. n. sp." = Eclipes veternus, "Merriamina ectenes n. gen. n. sp." = Eclipes veternus
"Eclipes veternus n. gen. n. sp." = Eclipes veternus Jordan and Gilbert 1919 perch-like fish
"Merriamina ectenes n. gen. n. sp." = Eclipes veternus Jordan and Gilbert 1919 perch-like fish
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Tunita octavia n. gen. n. sp.
Tunita octavia n. gen. n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
 Beloniformes - Belonidae
Scomberesox acutillus n. sp.
Scomberesox acutillus n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
 Argentiniformes - Microstomatidae
"Lygisma tenax n. gen. n. sp." = Bathylagus angelensis, Quaesita quisquilia n. gen. n. sp.
"Lygisma tenax n. gen. n. sp." = Bathylagus angelensis Jordan and Gilbert 1919
Quaesita quisquilia n. gen. n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
"Ellimma elmodenae n. sp." = Xyrinius elmodenae, Ganolytes clepsydra n. sp., Clupea hadleyi n. sp.
"Ellimma elmodenae n. sp." = Xyrinius elmodenae Jordan and Gilbert 1919 herring
Ganolytes clepsydra n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919 herring
Clupea hadleyi n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919 herring