Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
Alternative combination: Echiodon praecursor
Full reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269
Belongs to Carapus according to W. W. Schwarzhans 1980
See also Schwarzhans 2019
Sister taxa: Carapus acus, Carapus alleni, Carapus lisus, Carapus nuntius, Carapus smithvillensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otekaieke special school, which is in a Waitakian marine limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (13 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (10)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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