Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae
Full reference: J. Z. Gilbert. 1910. Evesthes jordani, a primitive flounder from the Miocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(27):405-411
Parent taxon: Pleuronectidae according to D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert 1920
See also Fierstine et al. 2012, Gilbert 1910, Jordan and Gilbert 1919 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Atheresthes, Glyptocephalus, Hippoglossoides, Lyopsetta, Microstomus, Parophrys, Platichthys, Pleuronectidarum, Pleuronectinae, Pleuronichthys, Solea
Subtaxa: Evesthes hooveri Evesthes jordani
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry (Miocene of California)
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