†Evesthes hooveri Jordan and Gilbert 1920 (flatfish)
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Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae
Full reference: D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1920. Fossil Fishes of Diatom Beds of Lompoc, California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications University Series
Belongs to Evesthes according to D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert 1920
Sister taxon: Evesthes jordani
Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 512, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry
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