Osteichthyes - Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae
Full reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269
Belongs to Waitakia according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Schwarzhans 1980 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Waitakia aho, Waitakia beelzebub, Waitakia dorsogibbosa, Waitakia proclinens, Waitakia profunda
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lake Waitaki, which is in a Duntroonian marine sandstone in the Wharekuri Greensand Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (12 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (4)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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