Actinopteri - Perciformes - Lactariidae
Alternative combination: Sparidarum sigmoidalis
Full reference: G. A. Frost. 1934. Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 63:133-144
Belongs to Lactarius according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Frost 1934, Schwarzhans 1980 and Schwarzhans 1985
Sister taxa: Lactarius amplus, Lactarius atlanticus, Lactarius nonfungus, Lactarius primigenius, Lactarius pusillus, Lactarius tumulatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Ihungia Stream, which is in a Kapitean marine mudstone in New Zealand
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), New Zealand (21)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (10)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (4)
• Eocene of Australia (7)
Total: 44 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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