Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Congridae
Alternative combination: Congridarum ornatus
Full reference: G. A. Frost. 1928. Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand, and from Balcombe Bay, Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 59:91-97
Belongs to Gnathophis according to W. Schwarzhans 2019
See also Frost 1928, Schwarzhans 1980, Schwarzhans 1985 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Gnathophis araroa, Gnathophis flemingi, Gnathophis habenatus, Gnathophis incognitus, Gnathophis meridies, Gnathophis saubriguensis, Gnathophis umbrellabius
Type specimen: Its type locality is Long Beach, Clifden, which is in an Altonian coastal horizon in New Zealand
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), New Zealand (22)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (3)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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