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Hachetfish
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Miocene
Monterey Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 67 mm
Sepulveda Canyon
Los Angeles County
California
United States
Taxonomy according to fossilworks.org.
Description from DAVID 1943, p. 11: “Length of head 37,5% to 41%, depth of head 43,8% to 58.8%, depth of body 50% to 63.8% of length of body. Vertebrae 38; 2 small abdominal spines; 12 abdominal lanterns; 3 + ? postabdominal lanterns. Supraneurals project above body for a distance equal to four-fifths of base of dorsal fin. D. =9; A. = 12.”
Line drawing from DAVID 1943, p. 60:
Photo of a recent Atlantic silver hatchetfish ( Argyropelecus aculeatus) from Wikipedia by SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC:
Identified by oilshale using David, 1943.
References:
David, L. R. (1943): Miocene Fishes of Southern California. Geological Society of America Special Paper 43:1-187.
Fierstine, H. L., Huddleston R. W., and Takeuchi, G. T. (2012): Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159:1-206.
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