Salmo esmeralda La Rivers 1966 (salmon)

Osteichthyes - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae

Full reference: I. La Rivers. 1966. A new trout from the Esmeralda (Pliocene) of southeastern Nevada. Biological Society of Nevada, Occasional Papers (11)4-5

Belongs to Salmo according to I. La Rivers 1966

Sister taxa: Salmo cyniclope, Salmo muelleri

Type specimen: BSN unnumbered, a mandible. Its type locality is Alum Mine, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial tuff in the Esmeralda Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Alum Mine

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