Marine Middle Eocene Otoliths from India and Java
Nolf, D.; Bajpai, S. (1992). Marine Middle Eocene Otoliths from India and Java. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Aardwet. = Bull. - Inst. r. sci. nat. Belg., Sci. Terre 62: 195-221
In: Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Aardwetenschappen = Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre. KBIN: Brussel. ISSN 0374-6291, more
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Geological time > Phanerozoic > Geological time > Cenozoic > Paleogene
Geological time > Phanerozoic > Geological time > Cenozoic > Paleogene > Palaeogene > Eocene
Geological time > Phanerozoic > Geological time > Cenozoic > Paleogene > Palaeogene > Eocene > Bartonian
Geological time > Phanerozoic > Geological time > Cenozoic > Paleogene > Palaeogene > Eocene > Lutetian
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]; Neopterygii; Actinopterygii [WoRMS]; Teleostei [WoRMS]
India [Marine Regions]; Indonesia, Java [Marine Regions]
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teleostean fishes, Middle Eocene, Indo-West-Pacific, poissons téléostéens, Eocène moyen, région indo-ouestpacifique. |
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- Nolf, D., more
- Bajpai, S.
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| Abstract |
Otoliths collected from the Harudi Formation (Lutetian) of Kachchh, Western India and from the Nanggulan Formation (Early Bartonian) of Nanggulan, Java, revealed the presence of respectively 15 and 24 teleost taxa. Seven new species are introduced: "genus Brotulinarum" siremboides, Apogon townsendoides, "genus Apogonidarum" altissimus, Lactarius nonfungus, "genus Menidarum" occultus, "genus Percoideorum" pseudatherina and "genus Percoideorum" sciaenoides. Both associations reveal very shallow neritic environments. They are compared with a previously described neritic Middle Eocene otolith association from central Western Pakistan, and a combined list of all (43) taxa represented in the three associations is provided. Considering the restricted sampling, the number (8) of taxa occuring at more than one locality is remarkable, and one can probably conclude that we sampled several of the most common and widespread teleosts inhabiting the neritic environments of the Indo-West-Pacific region during the Middle Eocene. Biogeographic evaluation of the available data leads to the conclusion that in the Eocene, the Indo-West-Pacific region was already inhabited by many fish taxa not represented elsewhere, and that probably it contained the most diverse fish community of the world, as it does today. |
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