Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Embiotocidae

Full reference: D. S. Jordan. 1924. Description of Miocene fishes from Southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 23(2):42-50

Belongs to Eriquius according to D. S. Jordan 1924

See also Fierstine et al. 2012 and Jordan 1925

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 602, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.