Empetrichthys erdisi Jordan 1924

Actinopteri - Cyprinodontiformes - Goodeidae

Alternative combination: Parafundulus erdisi

Full reference: D. S. Jordan. 1924. Description of Miocene fishes from Southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 23(2):42-50

Belongs to Empetrichthys according to H. L. Fierstine et al. 2012

See also Jordan 1924 and Jordan 1925

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 605, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is La Liebre Creek, which is in a Pleistocene marine horizon in the Labontan beds Formation of California.

Distribution: found only at La Liebre Creek

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