Actinopteri - Istiophoriformes - Sphyraenidae
Full reference: E. Casier. 1966. Sur la faune ichtyologique de la Formation de Bissex Hill et de la Série océanique, de l'Ile de la Barbade, et sur l'âge de ces formations. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59(1):493-515
Belongs to Sphyraena according to G. A. Ballen 2019
See also Casier 1966
Sister taxa: Sphyraena amici, Sphyraena argentea, Sphyraena barracuda, Sphyraena bognorensis, Sphyraena bolcensis, Sphyraena crassidens, Sphyraena croatica, Sphyraena cunhai, Sphyraena egleri, Sphyraena fajumensis, Sphyraena hansfuchsi, Sphyraena intermedia, Sphyraena kugleri, Sphyraena longimana, Sphyraena lugardi, Sphyraena major, Sphyraena malembeensis, Sphyraena muelleri, Sphyraena novaehollandiae, Sphyraena pannonica, Sphyraena sternbergensis, Sphyraena striata, Sphyraena substriata, Sphyraena suessi, Sphyraena tyrolensis, Sphyraena viannai, Sphyraena viennensis, Sphyraena weberi, Sphyraena winkleri
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bissex Hill, Bissex Hill Formation, which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the Bissex Hill Formation of Barbados
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Barbados (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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