Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell, 1965

Lin, Chien-Hsiang & Nolf, Dirk, 2022, Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA, European Journal of Taxonomy 814, pp. 1-122 : 51

Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell, 1965

Fig. 17A–F

Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell in Frizzell & Dante, 1965: 709, pl. 88 figs 12, 16–17.

Signata stenzeli – Schwarzhans 1981b: 113. — Ebersole et al. 2019: 199 , fig. 70g –h.

“genus Ophidiidarum ” stenzeli – Nolf 1985: 67.

“ Ophidiida ” stenzeli – Nolf 2013: 65, pl. 124.

Remarks

See under S. nicoli for the distinction of both species of Signata .

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Lutetian: “Stone City beds”, Texas; Dobys Bluff Tongue of Kosciusko Formation, Mississippi. Bartonian: Cook Mountain Formation, Texas; “upper” Lisbon Formation, Alabama.

Figures

Fig. 17. Fish otoliths from the US middle and upper Eocene. A–F. Signata stenzeli Dante & Frizzell, 1965, “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 2 from bed P, Texas (IRSNB P 10060– 10065). G–N. “aff.Glyptophidium” stringeri sp. nov.G–L. “Stone City beds”, Alabama Ferry, on Trinity River, North, Texas (IRSNB P 10066–10071). M–N. Wheelock M., Little Brazos River, Stenzel loc., Texas (IRSNB P 10072–10073). G. Holotype (IRSNB P 10066). H–N. Paratypes (IRSNB P 10067– 10073). 1 = ventral view; 2 = inner view. Scale bars = 1 mm.