Osteichthyes - Gadiformes - Macrouridae
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 Coelorinchus according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
Sister taxa: Coelorinchus asperocephalus, Coelorinchus balushkini, Coelorinchus biclinozonalis, Coelorinchus carminatus, Coelorinchus coelorhincus, Coelorinchus fasciatus, Coelorinchus fidelis, Coelorinchus nordenskjoeldi, Coelorinchus oliverianus, Coelorinchus pakaurangiensis, Coelorinchus preaustralis, Coelorinchus rapelanus, Coelorinchus regularis, Coelorinchus robustus, Coelorinchus stellaris
Type specimen: NMNZ S.47269, an otolith. Its type locality is Little Pareora River, which is in a Waitakian marine siltstone in the Mount Harris Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (21 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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