Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Gadidae
Full reference: W. Schwarzhans. 2019. Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths. Memorie Della Societa Italianà di Scienze Naturali e del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano 46:1-326
Belongs to Gadiculus according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
Sister taxa: Gadiculus (Archaeogadiculus), Gadiculus (Gadiculus), Gadiculus (Microgadiculus), Gadiculus (Paratrisopterus), Gadiculus adversus, Gadiculus argenteus
Type specimen: CD975, an otolith. Its type locality is Bell's Creek, right bank, which is in a Tongaporutuan marine mudstone in the Bells Creek Limestone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bell's Creek, right bank
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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