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

Parent taxon: Embiotocidae according to H. L. Fierstine et al. 2012

See also David 1943, Jordan 1924, Jordan 1925 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Amphistichus, Cymatogaster, Damalichthys, Ditrema, Embiotoca, Erisceles, Hysterocarpus, Micrometrus, Neoditrema, Rhacochilus

Subtaxa: Eriquius plectrodes

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Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry (Miocene of California)

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