Osteichthyes - Pleuronectiformes - Bothidae
Full reference: B. Chanet and O. Schultz. 1994. Pleuronectiform fishes from the Upper Badenian (Middle Miocene) of St. Margarethen (Austria). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie 96:95-115
Belongs to Miobothus according to B. Chanet and O. Schultz 1994
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NHMWien 1988/140/23a and b, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Leitha Limestone Quarry, which is in a Langhian shallow subtidal limestone in the Leitha Limestone Formation of Austria.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Leitha Limestone Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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