Bauzaia mucronata ( Koken, 1888 )

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 : 49-50

Bauzaia mucronata ( Koken, 1888)

Fig. 16I–N

Otolithus (Gadidarum) mucronatus Koken, 1888: 290 , pl. 17 figs 10–11.

Bauzaia mucronata – Frizzell & Dante 1965: 712, pl. 86 figs 43–44.

“genus Lepophidiinorum ” mucronatus – Nolf 1985: 64; 2003: 4, pl. 1 figs 11–13. — Müller 1999: 111, fig. 26/14–20.

“ Lepophidiinus ” mucronatus – Nolf 2013: 65, pl. 125.

Lepophidium ? mucronata – Ebersole et al. 2019: 201 , fig. 70m –n.

Remarks

See comments under the preceding species, B. lamberi .

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Lutetian: Weches Formation and “Stone City beds”, Texas; Cane River Formation, Louisiana; Dobys Bluff Tongue of Kosciusko Formation, Mississippi; “lower” Lisbon Formation, Alabama; Piney Point Formation, Virginia. Bartonian: Cook Mountain Formation, Texas and Mississippi; “upper” Lisbon Formation, Alabama.

Figures

Fig. 16. Fish otoliths from the US middle and upper Eocene. A–E. Hoplobrotula melrosensis (Dante & Frizzell, 1965), “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 2 from bed P, Texas (IRSNB P 10046–10050). F–H. Bauzaia lamberi Dante & Frizzell, 1965, “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 2 from bed P, Texas (IRSNB P 10051–10053). I–N. Bauzaia mucronata (Koken, 1888). I–J. “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 6 from bed U, Texas (IRSNB P10054–10055). K–N. Wheelock M., Little Brazos River, Stenzel loc., Texas (IRSNB P 10056–10059). 1 = ventral view; 2 = inner view. Scale bars = 1 mm.