Hoplobrotula melrosensis (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 : 54

Hoplobrotula melrosensis (Dante & Frizzell, 1965)

Fig. 16A–E

Bauzaia melrosensis Dante & Frizzell in Frizzell & Dante, 1965: 711, pl. 86 figs 7, 9.

Hoplobrotula melrosensis – Schwarzhans 1981b: 113. — Nolf 1985: 66; 2013: 67, pl. 132. — Ebersole et al. 2019: 200 , fig. 70k–l.

Remarks

Hoplobrotula melrosensis has a sulcus with a somewhat downward oriented cauda, a feature typical of the extant Hoplobrotula .

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Lutetian: Weches Formation and “Stone City beds”, Texas; “lower” Lisbon Formation, Alabama. Bartonian: “upper” Lisbon Formation, Alabama.

Figures

Fig. 16. Fish otoliths from the US middle and upper Eocene. A–E. Hoplobrotula melrosensis (Dante & Frizzell, 1965), “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 2 from bed P, Texas (IRSNB P 10046–10050). F–H. Bauzaia lamberi Dante & Frizzell, 1965, “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 2 from bed P, Texas (IRSNB P 10051–10053). I–N. Bauzaia mucronata (Koken, 1888). I–J. “Stone City beds”, Stone City Bluff, Brazos River, sample 6 from bed U, Texas (IRSNB P10054–10055). K–N. Wheelock M., Little Brazos River, Stenzel loc., Texas (IRSNB P 10056–10059). 1 = ventral view; 2 = inner view. Scale bars = 1 mm.