Coryphaenoides contortus ( Bassoli, 1906 )

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 : 23

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scientific name	Coryphaenoides contortus ( Bassoli, 1906 )
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Coryphaenoides contortus ( Bassoli, 1906)

The holotype of C. contortus was previously assigned to the genus Nezumia ( Nolf & Steurbaut 1983; Lin et al. 2015) based on the general outline of the otolith; however, the large, well-preserved specimen now available ( Fig. 8B) shows a clear pince-nez-shaped sulcus with an upwardly bent crista superior and a crista inferior that is strongly constricted at the collum, suggesting closer affinities with the genus Coryphaenoides than with Nezumia Jordan, 1904 .

References

Bassoli G. G. 1906. Otoliti fossili terziari dell'Emilia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia 12: 36 - 61.

Lin C. - H., Girone A. & Nolf D. 2015. Tortonian fish otoliths from turbiditic deposits in northern Italy: taxonomic and stratigraphic significance. Geobios 48: 249 - 261. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. geobios. 2015.03.003

Nolf D. & Steurbaut E. 1983. Revision des otolithes de teleosteens du Tortonien stratotypique et de Montegibbio (Miocene Superieur d'Italie septentrionale). Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20: 143 - 197.