Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Sillaginidae
Full reference: W. W. Schwarzhans. 1980. Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary. New Zealand Geological Survey Report 113:1-269
Belongs to Sillago according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Schwarzhans 1980 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Sillago campbellensis, Sillago ciliata, Sillago maxwelli, Sillago mckayi, Sillago pliocaenica, Sillago schwarzhansi, Sillago ventriosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is S137/f499 - Rifle Butts Fm, Pukeuri, which is in an Altonian coastal sandstone in the Rifle Butts Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (6 collections)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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