Osteichthyes - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Full reference: R. J. Estes. 1969. Studies on Fossil Phyllodont Fishes: Interrelationships and Evolution in the Phyllodontidae (Albuloidei) . Copeia 2:317-331
Belongs to Paralbula according to L. Nelson et al. 2025
See also Bryant 1989, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Ebersole et al. 2022, Hoganson et al. 2019, Peng et al. 2001 and Schubert et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Paralbula marylandica, Paralbula salvania, Paralbula stromeri
Type specimen: MCZ 9285, a set of teeth (basibranchial tooth plate frag). Its type locality is Reservoir Creek, Harding Farm, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Navesink Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Canada (51: Alberta), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (29: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 84 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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