Paralepididae Bonaparte, 1835

Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Brzobohatý, Rostislav, Nolf, Dirk & Girone, Angela, 2017, Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance, European Journal of Taxonomy 322, pp. 1-44 : 16

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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.322

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3848325

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Paralepididae Bonaparte, 1835
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A paralepidid otolith from Sant’Agata Fossili ( Fig. 4O View Fig ) is characterised by a very elongate shape, by a large ostial colliculum reaching to the antero-dorsal rim, and by a swollen ventral area. It shows much similarity with otoliths of the Recent genus Lestrolepis (see Smale et al. 1995: pl. 16, figs C1, C2; Lin & Chang 2012: pls 9, 77). However, the available specimen is too worn for an unambiguous generic attribution. Another paralepidid otolith ( Fig. 4H View Fig ), which is clearly different from the above-mentioned specimen, can be referred to the genus Paralepis (see Girone et al. 2010: fig. 6), but the preservation status does not allow any specific attribution.

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