Hemerocoetes pukunati Schwarzhans 2019 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Jugulares - Hemerocoetidae

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 ItalianĂ  di Scienze Naturali e del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano 46:1-326

Belongs to Hemerocoetes according to W. Schwarzhans 2019

Sister taxa: Hemerocoetes acanthorhynchus, Hemerocoetes macrophthalmus, Hemerocoetes minutus, Hemerocoetes monopterygius, Hemerocoetes whiroki

Type specimen: AU V556, an otolith. Its type locality is Tengawai River, which is in an Otaian marine sandstone in New Zealand.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of New Zealand (4 collections)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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