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 Italianà 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 pukunati
Type specimen: NMNZ S.47581, an otolith. Its type locality is Head of Lake Waitaki, which is in a Duntroonian marine sandstone in New Zealand.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (4 collections)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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