Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae

Full reference: J. Z. Gilbert. 1910. Evesthes jordani, a primitive flounder from the Miocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(27):405-411

Parent taxon: Pleuronectidae according to D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert 1920

See also Fierstine et al. 2012, Gilbert 1910, Jordan and Gilbert 1919 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Atheresthes, Glyptocephalus, Hippoglossoides, Lyopsetta, Microstomus, Parophrys, Platichthys, Pleuronectidarum, Pleuronectinae, Pleuronichthys, Solea

Subtaxa: Evesthes hooveri Evesthes jordani

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

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

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