Trichiurus oshosunensis White 1926 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Trichiuridae

Full reference: E. I. White. 1926. Eocene fishes from Nigeria. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Nigeria 10:1-87

Belongs to Trichiurus according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019

See also Casier 1958 and White 1926

Sister taxa: Trichiurus lepturus, Trichiurus miocaenus, Trichiurus plicidens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oshosun, which is in a Lutetian marine horizon in Nigeria

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Barbados (1 collection), Nigeria (2), United States (2: Alabama)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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