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Surgeon Fish
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Eocene
International Age: Lutetian
Monte Bolca Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 10 cm
Pesciara ("The Fishbowl")
Monte Bolca near Verona
Veneto
Italy
Old name: Naseus rectifrons Agassiz, 1842
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.com.
References:
Agassiz, L. (1842) Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 14). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel 205-291.
Blot, J. and Tyler, J. C. (1990) New genera and species of fossil surgeon fishes and their relatives (Acanturoidei, Teleostei) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with application of the Blot formula to both fossil and recent forms. Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca 6:13-92.
Carnevale, G., Bannikov, A. F., Marramá, G., Tyler, J. C. and Zorzin, R. (2014) The Pesciara-Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 4:37-63.
Bellwood D.R. (1996) The Eocene fishes of Monte Bolca: the earliest coral reef fish assemblage. Coral Reefs 15: 11-19.
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