Protomyctophum ahunga Schwarzhans, 2019

Schwarzhans, Werner, Ohe, Fumio, Tsuchiya, Yuki & Ujihara, Atsushi, 2022, Lanternfish otoliths (Myctophidae, Teleostei) from the Miocene of Japan, Zitteliana 96, pp. 103-134 : 103

Protomyctophum ahunga Schwarzhans, 2019

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Protomyctophum ahunga 2019 Protomyctophum ahunga - Schwarzhans: figs 51.1-5.

Protomyctophum ahunga 2021 Protomyctophum ahunga Schwarzhans, 2019 - Schwarzhans and Nielsen: fig. 7i-m.

Material.

160 specimens: 158 specimens (figured specimens SMF PO 101.115), Miya River at Oda and Numa, Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, Takakura FM, levels MS 06, MS 07, MS 15, MS 22, MS 27, MS 36, MS 52, MS 70, MS 80, MS 90, b, d, f9, f10, f40, g, gh, h and j, late Burdigalian, diatom zone 3A-3B ; 2 specimens, Osedani , Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Higashibessho FM, level H 20, late Burdigalian to early Langhian, diatom zone 3A-4A .

Discussion.

For a detailed description, see Schwarzhans (2019) and the subsequent update in Schwarzhans and Nielsen (2021). Protomyctophum ahunga is a typical and rather common species in the late Burdigalian of New Zealand and Chile but has not been found in coeval sediments of the Caribbean (Trinidad or Venezuela). Its common occurrence in late Burdigalian to early Langhian sediments of Japan indicates that it may have had an antitropical distribution in the Pacific Ocean during the late early and early middle Miocene.

Subfamily Lampanyctinae Paxton, 1972

Figures

Figure 5. A-C: Diogenichthys aguilerai Schwarzhans, 2013, SMF PO 101.112, Tsuyama City, Takakura Formation, level MS 04.5; D-L: Myctophum murbani (Weinfurter, 1952); D-I, K-L; SMF PO 101.113, Tsuyama City, Takakura Formation, levels MS 15, MS 27, MS 52, h, J) SMF PO 101.114 Mizunami City, Oidawara Formation; M-O: Myctophum sp., col. Tsuchiya, Ichishi Group; P-Z: Protomyctophum ahunga Schwarzhans, 2019, SMF PO 101.115, Tsuyama City, Takakura Formation, levels MS 15, MS 22, MS 36, h.