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The fossil otoliths of the southern USA have been known for more than 130 years and are
among the richest assemblages worldwide. However, previous studies are often scattered and employed outdated systematic scheme. A collection of over 25000 otoliths ranging in age from the Lutetian to the Priabonian from 47 sites in five states in the eastern and...
Otoliths from the Middle Miocene of the Moravian Carpathian Foredeep revealed the presence of 84 nominal species of bony fishes, as well as 22 taxa identified in open nomenclature only. Two species, Ijimaia rara n. sp. And Coryphaenoides scrupus n. sp., are described as new. The otolith assemblage is quantitatively dominated by myctophids, but stom...
The Tortonian fish otoliths of northern Italy have been studied for more than a century and represent one of the best known otolith-based teleost faunas in the Miocene of the Mediterranean Basin. Yet with the growing knowledge on Recent otoliths, an updated taxonomic overview of this fauna is needed. Moreover, new material from hemipelagic Tortonia...
A matched pair of otoliths (right and left saccular otoliths) and associated skeletal remains (n = 107) of Apogon townsendi (belted cardinalfish) were obtained in unconsolidated sediment from inside the valves of an articulated scallop Carolinapecten eboreus. The scallop specimen was collected in Hendry County, Florida, from the lower Pleistocene C...
Otoliths represent a significant biogenic carbonate component in marine sediments that may provide valuable information for paleoenvironmental and biogeographic reconstructions. In spite of their importance, relatively little is still known about the taxonomic composition, abundance and early taphonomic characteristics of recent otolith death-assem...
The fossil otolith assemblages of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France) have been extensively studied for more than 30 years and are among the best documented worldwide. However, Lutetian otoliths are less well known than those from the lower and upper Eocene. A new collection of >11,000 otoliths from the Lutetian Miretrain Marl Formation from five diffe...
Fish otoliths from the fossiliferous turbiditic sand deposits outcropping at the Borelli and Moncucco localities (Piedmont, Northern Italy) are herein analyzed. The studied section is Tortonian in age and belongs to the lower portion of the Sant’Agata Fossili Formation. The study reveals the presence of at least 90 otolith-based taxa of which 78 ar...
Reconstruction of paleoenvironment using otolith assemblage has been applied on many marine Cenozoic sediments. However, the compositions of otolith assemblage on Recent sea bottom in various environmental settings are poorly known. Given that they could provide precise reference information while interpreting fossil otolith materials in the recons...
The fish otoliths from the fossiliferous Borelli locality (Moncucco Torinese, Piedmont, northern Italy) are herein analysed. The studied section, Tortonian in age (Festa et al., 2009), belongs to the lower portion of Sant’Agata Fossili Formation (Festa et al., 2009). The study allows the reconstruction of a fauna of 90 taxa of which 67 has been ide...
Studying the diet of top marine predators, such as seabirds, is important in understanding their place in the trophic network and effects of global climate change, but knowledge of the diet of several procellariiformes remains anecdotal. The diet of Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) in the Azores was studied over two consecutive years using stoma...
Otoliths collected in the basal part of the Pamplona Marl at Yebra de Basa allow reconstituting a teleost fauna of 31 taxa, including 18 nominal species. The association is dominated by a single species, Apogon dominons n. sp. (92% of all otoliths; more than 5 000 specimens in the collection). This assemblage reflects a very shallow neritic environ...
The study of otolith assemblages from the pre-evaporitic Messinian deposits allows the reconstruction of a fauna of 79 taxa
of which 35 could be identified at the specific level. Three of these are new: Diaphus rubus, Myctophum coppa, and Uranoscopus ciabatta. The assemblages reflect mainly a neritic environment influenced by the oceanic realm. Ana...
The osteology of the fossil priacanthid Pristigenys rutoti (= P. caduca) (Teleostei, Percoidei) from the Sands of Lede (marine Middle Eocene, Belgium) is described in details thanks to a nearly complete specimen with a skull preserved in volume and to other samples with isolated bones. A new species, Pristigenys hermani, also from the Sands of Lede...
The study of the Late Eocene (Priabonian) otolith associations from Possagno, North-East Italy, and from the Synclinal d’Allons in Haute Provence, South-East France, allows for the reconstruction of a teleost fauna of 55 taxa, which is the most diversified assemblage presently known from the Upper Eocene Paleo–Mediterranean basin. Thirty-six taxa a...
The study of Oligocene fish otoliths from the blue marls in the Castellane area allowed the reconstruction of a teleost fauna of 38 taxa of which 16 could be identified at species level. This is the first otolith-based neritic fish fauna known from the Mediterranean Early Oligocene. Additional data for Early Oligocene otolith-based fish faunas of t...
The study of the Maastrichtian Deccan Intertrappean otolith association allows for the reconstruction of a fish fauna of 22 taxa, of which 16 are identified at species level. Three species are new: "genus Heterotidinarum" heterotoides, "genus Percoideorum" citreum and Dapalis erici. The represented taxa include typical freshwater ones, essentially...
Some bony remains, otoliths and squamules belonging to the osteoglossid genus Scleropages are described from the continental Paleocene of Hainin (Mons Basin, Belgium). The hypotheses to explain the occurrence of such a freshwater fish in Europe at that time are discussed. KEY WORDS : Teleostei, Osteoglossidae, Scleropages, fossil remains, continent...
Sixty-three otolith-based species were recorded in the Kienberg-vineyard section (northwestern part of the Vienna Basin), ten of which are new for the Central Paratethys. The assemblage contains the first fossil records of the extant species Scorpaena notata and Spondyliosoma cantharus. It correlates with the survey of the foraminifera in the prese...
An overview of upper pPliocene and pleistocene otolith assemblages is compiled on the basis of both literature data and newly collected material from several sections located mainly in southern Italy. One hundred and five taxa are listed. Additional comments are provided for taxa subject to discussion. The composition and affinities of the Mediterr...
Otolith features are used to test osteology-based hypotheses about interrclationships among caproid, zeiform and tetraodontiform fiches and intrarelationships of tlie taxa within each concerned group. Otolith morphology suggests that caproids are the plesiomorphic sister group «f L~eiforms + tetraodontiforms]. In zeiforms. otolith data are in reaso...
Sampling of about 1000 kg of sediment at the Vastan Lignite Mine provided otoliths of 20 teleost taxa of which nine could be described as new species: "genus Atherinidarum" rhomboides, "genus Atherinidarum" spinifer, "genus Percoideorum" thierrysmithi, "genus Centropomidarum" obesum, Acropoma massiva, "genus Acropomidarum" angulosum, "genus Ambassi...
The revision of some Odontaspididae species from the Paleocene and the Eocene of the North sea Basin has clarified the generic status of some of them and to precise their dental morphologies. A species from the Lutetian of Belgium, Carcharias sp., can be considered as the first representative of the lineage leading to the Recent species C. taurus....
A sampling of otoliths in the Lower Aptian sediments of the Maestrazgo provided otoliths of 18 teleost taxa of which 11 could be described as new species: Elops bultyncki, «genus Elopidarum» casanovae, «genus Albulidarum» atavus, Pterothrissus todolellanus, «genus Euteleosteorumr» geometricus, «genus Protacanthopterygiorum» scalpellum, «genus Argen...
Geological evidence for periodical low oxygen bottom water conditions in the Mediterranean is known since the early sixties. Sediment layers deposited during these conditions are enriched in organic matter and known as sapropels. After more than 40 years of intensive study, controversies still exist over the mechanisms of their formation. Whereas s...
Sampling of Upper Santonian marls in the Montsec (Catalonia, Spain) and Sougraigne (Aude, France) provided otoliths of 23 teleost taxa of which 12 could be described as new species: "genus Trachichthyidarum" causae, Centroberyx antiquus, "genus Zeiformorum" tyleri, "genus Scorpaeniformorum" agonoides, Dapalis distortus, "genus Acropomatidarum" baga...
The main interest of the otoliths collected in the Palaeocanyon of Saubrigues lies in the fact that a succession of five fish faunas from a significantly deeper environment than other places in the Aquitaine Basin can be studied there, in the same geographic area and in a sedimentary environment that remains almost constant throughout the considere...
Detailed analysis of a series of outcrop sections along the Lespontes River and its tributaries at Saint-Lon-les-Mines has led to the identification of three predominantly marly units within the Middle and Upper Eocene of the Bassecq Syncline. The lowermost unit consists of bathyal marls, attributable to the Miretrain Marl Formation, and is of Late...
Otolith studies at the Lahosse, Parguie de Couston locality revealed the presence of 35 teleost taxa of which 27 were previously unknown from the Aquitaine Basin. Three of those, Dermatopsis chalossiana, Fowleria coustonis and “genus Pempheridarum” chicot, represent new species. The successive associations are indicative for a very nearshore neriti...
The new species Lampadena ionica (Myctophidae, Teleostei) is described from lower and middle Pleistocene deposits of southern Italy. In particular, L. ionica is known from the "large Gephyrocapsa" up to the Pseudoemiliania lacunosa biozone. Apparently, the species became extinct before the end of the Pleistocene. Although the genus Lampadena lives...
The present paper presents the guide book of the excursion of the « Groupe d'Étude du Paléogène in southern Aquitaine (4–6 september 2000), organized by the authors. Numerous Paleogene sections are discussed. Several of them were never described in detail previously: various sections on the Lespontes river at Saint-Lon-les Mines (Middle and Upper E...
The yet poorly known stomiiform otoliths from the Carpathian Foredeep are revised and could be completed with five previously unknown taxa. Earlier citations from the Central Paratethys are reconsidered or synonymized. In the Badenian (Lower part of the Middle Miocene), 10 species are recorded from the Carpatian Foredeep, among them the new species...
Otolith sampling provided an extensive fossil record for Steindachneria, an "odd" deepwater gadiform fish genus represented only by a single Recent species endemic to the Carribean realm. These otoliths constitute the only known fossil material. They trace back the ancestry of the taxon to at least the Early Miocene and extend its past geographical...
Since the late Oligocene, a fossil Coelorinchus species, C. stellaris, existed beside the Recent C. coelorhinus. In the Atlantic realm, C. stellaris appeared in the Palaeocanyon of Saubrigues (Aquitaine) in the Late Oligocene, but the species entered in the Mediterranean in the Late Pliocene (Gelasian) only, may be because of modified climatic cond...
Brackish deposits of Middle Eocene age (near the Lutetian-Bartonian boundary) in Northern Italy and Hungary provided otoliths of six fish species, among which Dapalis ventricosus is new. This new species is the only one common to both regions.
The otolith study reveals the presence of 61 taxa of teleosteans ijn the Early Miocene Cantaure Formation, among which five are new species: Aplodinotus longecaudata, A. hoffmani, Equetus davidandrewi, Larimus henrici and L. steurbauti. The associations reflect tropical near shore marine environments, with a water depth of less than 50 m. A compila...
The Piacenzian site of Vale de Freixo, about 120 km north of Lisbon, provided otoliths belonging to 28 teleost taxa. Twenty of those could be identified at species level. The association reflects a very near shore fauna that lived in somewhat warmer waters than those floading the present day Portuguese coast at the latitude of Vale de Freixo. The a...
Twenty-nine species of 'non-Diaphus' myctophids are recorded from the Tertiary (mainly Neogene) strata of Europe. One among them, Lampadena speculigeroides is new, and two species previously considered as doubtful, are revalidated: Lampadena gracile (Schubert, 1912) and Notoscopelus mediterraneus (Koken, 1891). The bulk of the data concerns the Med...
The paper presents a summary of data on changes in oceanic fish otolith associations that are not induced by local conditions, and that can be used for biostratigraphy in distant basins of southern and central Europe. The terminal Oligocene is characterised by the last occurrence of Valenciennellus brzobohatyi, Opisthoproctus stellaris, Xenodermich...
The revision of Oligocene otoliths of the myctophid genus Diaphus based on extensive otolith collections in the Aquitaine Basin, the French Alps, northern Italy and the Paratethys has proved the validity of only six nominal species: D. alcoholicus n.sp. D. longirostris (Brzobohaty 1967), D. molossus Nolf & Steurbaut, 1988, D. perspicillatoides n.sp...
Otoliths collected from the Late Oligocene of the Eger area revealed the presence of 52 teleost taxa from subtropical to warm temperate waters. Two successive faunas, which have only three species in common, are identified: the Kiscell Clay fauna, comprising 30 taxa, and the Eger Formation fauna, comprising 25 taxa. Although both belong to distinct...
Examples of (1) affinities suggested by otolith morphology between perciform taxa previously thought to be only distantly related and (2) strongly divergent otolith morphologies within perciform taxa presumed to be homogeneous are given. These examples are intended as pointers to the selection for osteological or anatomical study of particular grou...
Otoliths collected from the Matthews Landing Marl Member, the upper member of the Porters Creek Formation in Alabama, revealed the presence of 19 teleost taxa. Six new species are introduced. This is the oldest Paleogene otolith assemblage yet published, since the age of the Matthews Landing Marl falls near the Danian-Selandian boundary. The associ...
Otoliths collected from the Coffee Sand (Campanian) in Mississippi revealed the presence of 20 teleost taxa. Six new species are introduced: genus ?Albulidarum' ensis, "genus Pterothrissidarum' griffini, "genus Synodontidarum' pseudoperca, "genus Trachichthyidarum' coffeesandensis, "genus Percoideorum' pseudochanda, and "genus Perciformorum' cepolo...
The stratotype of the Aalter Sands is studied by means of detailed lithostratigraphic analysis and calcareous nannoplankton investigation. A 12.35m thick, shelly sequence which rests on micaceous, lignitic sand of the Vlierzele Formation (Aalterbrugge Lignitic Horizon) and which is overlain by a basal calcareous sandstone of the Lede Sand Formation...
The study of approximately twenty three thousand otoliths from Plio-Pleistocene sites in the harbour region of Antwerp, as well as a critical revision of already published material allowed us to identify a teleostean fauna with fourty seven species (including two subspecies and seven species in open nomenclature). Two of these, Ophidion springeri a...
An important new collection of otoliths from theCalcaire Grossier of the Paris Basin, as well as a critical review of already published material is studied and reveals the presence of 56 species. Five of these are new: Muraenesox spatulus, Genus Synodontidarum intermedius, Genus Ophidiidarum spinosus, Chanda bohlkei and Mene sekharani. The assembla...
Otolith studies revealed the presence of 43 teleost taxa in the North American Late Cretaceous. The stratigraphic and geographic distribution of the concerned taxa are summarized, and 10 new taxa are described: "genus Os-teoglossidarum" tavernei, Albula campaniana, "genus Albulidarum" ripleyensis, "genus Ophidiidarum" cavatus, "genus Trachichthyida...
RESUME. -Le tamisage d'environ 1500 kg de sediment des Sables du Bois-Gouet a livre 1622 otolithes appartenant a 22 especes de Teleosteens. Parmi celles-ci. deux sont nouvelles : Atherina margereli et Ammodytes vasseuri. I1 s'agit d'une faune marine tropicale ou subtropicale, ayant vecu dans des eaux tres peu profon-des. L'association se caracteris...
Proefschrift Gent. Bibliografie: p. 194-204.
Proefschrift - Rijksuniversiteit Gent. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-148).
