Preophidion granus ( Müller, 1999 )

Lin, Chien-Hsiang & Nolf, Dirk, 2022, Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA, European Journal of Taxonomy 814, pp. 1-122 : 59-60

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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.814.1745

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scientific name

Preophidion granus ( Müller, 1999 )
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Preophidion granus ( Müller, 1999)

Fig. 19D–F View Fig

“genus Sirembinorum granus Müller, 1999: 122 , fig. 28/19–20, pl 16 fig. 15.

“genus Sirembinorum granus – Nolf & Stringer 2003: pl. 3 figs 15–17.

“ Sirembinus ” granus – Nolf 2013: 66, pl. 128.

Sirembo View in CoL ? granus – Stringer et al. 2022: 6, fig. 3g.

Remarks

The otoliths of P. granus are easily distinguished from those of P. elevatus and P. petropolis by their having a clearly angular junction of the ostial and caudal crista inferior, a narrow anterior part of the cauda, and a posterior portion of the cauda that is bent in a ventral direction. But the most striking feature of P. granus is apparently that in a ventral view the otoliths show a very marked thickening of their anterior portion.

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Lutetian: Piney Point Formation, Virginia. Bartonian: “upper” Lisbon Formation and Gosport Sand, Alabama; Moodys Branch Formation, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Priabonian: Yazoo Clay, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Ophidiiformes

Family

Ophidiidae

Genus

Preophidion

Loc

Preophidion granus ( Müller, 1999 )

Lin, Chien-Hsiang & Nolf, Dirk 2022
2022
Loc

Sirembo

Stringer G. L. & Parmley D. & Quinn A. 2022: 6
2022
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