A giant early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny

Gregorová, Růžena; Schultz, Ortwin; Harzhauser, Mathias; Kroh, Andreas; Ćorić, Stjepan

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“…They are part of the upper Egerian stage (=Aquitanian) and correspond to the nannoplankton zone NN2 (Gregorová et al 2009; Grunert et al 2010). Various aspects of the fossil fauna of the locality were discussed by Gregorová et al (2009), Grunert et al (2010), Harzhauser et al (2011) and Harzhauser & Schlögl (2012).North Alpine Foreland Basin (Germany)—At Neuhofen bei Tettenweis the type locality of the Neuhof Beds (Neuhofener Schichten) is situated. They are composed of clayey to fine sandy marls (Doppler et al 2005).…”

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“…Laminated sandy and silty clays of the Ebelsberg Formation (Krenmayr & Schnabel 2006) were exposed here. They are part of the upper Egerian stage (=Aquitanian) and correspond to the nannoplankton zone NN2 (Gregorová et al 2009; Grunert et al 2010). Various aspects of the fossil fauna of the locality were discussed by Gregorová et al (2009), Grunert et al (2010), Harzhauser et al (2011) and Harzhauser & Schlögl (2012).…”

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Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Hyžný¹,

Gašparič²

2014

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Ghost shrimps of the family Callianassidae are very common in the fossil record, but mostly as isolated cheliped elements only. The assignment to biologically defined genera, diagnosed on the basis of soft part morphology, is thus rather difficult. In this respect, proxy characters present on chelipeds that are the most durable ghost shrimp remains are needed to ascribe fossil material to extant genera. The genus Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 has been particularly obscure in this respect. Thorough comparison of extant members of the genus resulted in evaluation of characters present on chelipeds being taxonomically important on the genus level, specifically: 1) rectangular major P1 propodus with two ridges on the base of the fixed finger extending onto manus; 2) major P1 fingers relatively short; and 3) minor P1 chela with dactylus longer than fixed finger and possessing a wide gap between fingers. On this basis, Callianassa michelottii A. Milne Edwards, 1860, from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe is herein reassigned to Calliax. Further re-examination of the ghost shrimp fossil record revealed that C. szobensis Müller, 1984, from the Middle Miocene of Hungary represents the same animal as C. michelottii and they are synomymised herein. The known geographic distribution of C. michelottii is expanded by the first confirmed occurrence of the species in Slovakia. All occurrences of C. michelottii known to date are reviewed and documented. The presence of Calliax michelottii comb. nov. may be considered an indicator of deeper marine settings. Based on the scarce fossil record known to date, Calliax has a Tethyan origin; it supposedly migrated westward to establish present day communities in the Caribbean sometime before the Middle Miocene.

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Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Hyžný¹,

Gašparič²

2014

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“…James C. Tyler and other authors published many papers on fossil tetraodontiforms (e.g., Tyler and Patterson 1991;Tyler and Banikov 1992, 2011Tyler et al , 1993Tyler et al , 2000Tyler et al , 2003Tyler et al , 2006Sorbini 1996, 1998;Tyler and Winterbottom 1999;Santini 2001, 2002;Sorbini and Tyler 2004;Bannikov and Tyler 2008a, b;Gregorova et al 2009;Carnevale and Tyler 2010;Tyler and Kriznar 2013;Miyajima et al 2014). Santini and Tyler (2003) used osteological data on fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes accumulated by previous contributions to generate a new classification of all known families represented by fossil and extant forms.…”

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Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014

Matsuura

2014

Ichthyol Res

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When the first Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC1) was held in Sydney in 1981, there were still many problems in the generic-and species-level taxonomy of all tetraodontiform families except for the recently reviewed Triacanthodidae and Triacanthidae. The period from IPFC1 to IPFC9 (1981IPFC9 ( -2013) was a time of great progress in the taxonomy and systematics of the Tetraodontiformes: many review and revisional papers have been published for various genera and species, with descriptions of many new taxa occurring mainly on coral reefs and in tropical freshwaters; and cladistic analyses of morphological characters have been performed to clarify phylogenetic relationships of various families and molecular analyses have greatly progressed to provide detailed phylogenetic relationships of families, genera, and even species. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review on developments in the taxonomy and systematics of the Tetraodontiformes, focusing primarily on contributions since 1980 (when James C. Tyler's monumental work was published) through the period of IPFCs, including pertinent publications before 1980. This paper recognizes 412 extant species in the 10 families of living Tetraodontiformes, with the allocation of species and genera as follows: Triacanthodidae including 23 species in 11 genera, Triacanthidae seven species in four genera, Balistidae 37 species in 12 genera, Monacanthidae 102 species in 27 genera, Aracanidae 13 species in six genera, Ostraciidae 22 species in five genera, Triodontidae monotypic, Tetraodontidae 184 species in 27 genera, Diodontidae 18 species in seven genera, and Molidae five species in three genera. Phylogenetic relationships of the families have been clarified by morphological and molecular analyses and have provided well-supported sister relationships of the families: Triacanthodidae and Triacanthidae, Balistidae and Monacanthidae, and Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae. However, there remain problems with the phylogenetic positions of the Triodontidae and Molidae due to conflicts of differing positions in morphological and molecular studies (e.g., Molidae has been placed differently among molecular studies).

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“…The silty clays are part of the Ebelsberg Formation (Krenmayr and Schnabel 2006) and belong to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. They are part of the upper Egerian stage (= Aquitanian) and correspond to the nannoplankton zone NN2 (Gregorova et al. 2009; Grunert et al.…”

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“…Recently, the Pucking section achieved more scientific attention owing to its outstanding fossils. Gregorova et al. (2009) described several huge sunfishes, and Grunert et al.…”

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Lepadiform and scalpelliform barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Paratethys sea

Harzhauser

Schlögl

2012

Palaeontology

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A review on the Oligocene and Miocene stalked barnacles of the Paratethys Sea is presented. The fauna comprises two lepadiform and eight scalpelliform species. Only two species are known from Oligocene deposits, four are documented from Lower Miocene formations, and another four species occur in the Middle Miocene. Only one Oligocene and one Miocene species occur in two different Paratethyan basins in roughly coeval environments, and only a single Middle Miocene species is also known from the adjacent Mediterranean Sea. This low degree of biogeographical similarity is probably a result from the still low number of publications dealing with this group. Stalked barnacles are often indicating bathyal or at least deep sublittoral environments. Especially, the abundance of the benthic deep-water lepadiform Poecilasma in evaporitic deposits of the Middle Miocene Badenian Salinity Crisis may serve as new evidence for a deeper marine depositional environment. Scalpellum paratethyianum sp. nov. and Lepas sattmanni sp. nov. are described as new species; Arcoscalpellum renevieri (Mayer and Gümbel in Gümbel, 1861) is introduced as new combination.

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A giant early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny

Cited by 12 publications

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Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014

Lepadiform and scalpelliform barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Paratethys sea

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