Brotula aquitanica Nolf, 1980

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 : 48-49

Brotula aquitanica Nolf, 1980

Fig. 38K

Brotula aquitanica Nolf, 1980: 104 , pl. 15 fig. 14.

Brotula aquitanica – Nolf 1985: 64; 1988: 59, pl. 6 figs 6–7; 2013: 65, pl. 124. — Nolf & Stringer 2003: 5, pl. 7 fig. 12.

Remarks

As already mentioned by Nolf & Stringer (2003), two specimens from the Priabonian Yazoo Clay of Louisiana look almost identical to those of Brotula aquitanica from the Ypresian Gan Clay in Aquitaine, SW France (see Nolf 2013: pl. 124 for an iconography of the specimens from Aquitaine).

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Bartonian: Moodys Branch Formation, Louisiana. Priabonian: Yazoo Clay, Louisiana.

Figures

Fig. 38 (opposite page). Fish otoliths from the US middle and upper Eocene. A. “Ophichthus” brevior (Koken, 1888), holotype (ZMB Ot. 26), “Jackson Beds”, Mississippi (?). B. Gnathophis dissimilis (Frizzell & Lamber, 1962), Moodys Branch F., Town Creek, Jackson, Mississippi (IRSNB P 9038). C. Paraconger solidus Müller, 1999, holotype (coll. Institut für Geowissenschaften, University of Leipzig, Nr. 10/P67), Piney Point F., loc. 24 (Horseshoe) of Müller, 1999, Virginia. D–G. Paraconger yazooensis Nolf & Stringer, 2003, Yazoo Clay, Tullos M., Copenhagen, Louisiana. D. Holotype (IRSNB P 6962). E–G. Paratypes (IRSNB P 6963–6965). H. Muraenanguilla aff. thevenini (Priem, 1906), Yazoo Clay, Copenhagen, Louisiana (IRSNB P 6966). I. Signata nicoli Dante & Frizzell, 1965, Weches F., Pleasanto, Atascosa County, Texas, holotype (USNM 23370). J. Xenosirembo decipiens (Koken, 1888), lectotype (ZMB Ot. 135), middle Eocene, “Clayborne Group”, southern USA. K. Brotula aquitanica Nolf, 1980, Yazoo Clay, Tullos M., Copenhagen, Louisiana (IRSNB P 7419). L–O. Aequalobythites aequaloides (Nolf & Stringer, 2003), Yazoo Clay, Copenhagen, Louisiana.L. Holotype (IRSNB P 6977). M–O. Paratypes (IRSNB P 6978–6980). 1 = ventral view; 2 = inner view. Scale bars = 1 mm.