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Scomber voitestii Pauca, 1929
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Taxonomy
Mackerel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Scombriformes Bleeker 1859
Family: Scombridae Rafinesque 1815
Genus: Scomber
Species: Scomber voitestii
Author Citation Pauca, 1929
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Oligocene
International Age: Rupelian
Stratigraphy
Menilite-Krosno Group
Menilite formation
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Length: 10 cm
Location
Jamna Dolna
Bieszczady County
Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Poland
Comments
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Diagnosis from Monsch & Bannikov 2012, p. 274: "First and second dorsal fin separated by distance slightly longer than base of first dorsal. Fourteen precaudal vertebrae. Haemal spine 1 comparatively strongly thickened and curved (but not posteriorly hooked, see Weiler 1933, Text-fig. 4). Anal fin with 11–13 rays."
References:
Pauca, M. (1929) Vorläufige Mitteilung über eine fossile Fischfauna aus den Oligozänschiefern von Suclânesti (Muscel). Acad. Roum. Sect. Sci. Bull. v. 12, p. 112-121.
Monsch, Kenneth A. and Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2012) New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 102, 253–300, (for 2011).
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