Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979

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Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979

Fig. 4D

1979 Echiodon heinzelini – Huyghebaert and Nolf, p. 74, fig. 5

1984 Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979 – Steurbaut, pl. 13, figs. 1–6

2004 Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979 – Nolf and Brzobohaty, pl. 8, fig. 6

Material

One otolith from level 11.

Distribution

Lower Miocene of Belgium ( Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979), SW France ( Steurbaut, 1984), northern Italy ( Nolf and Brzobohaty, 2004), and the MHB.

Remarks

The sulcus reaches both the proximal and almost the distal tip, similar to E. heinzelini from the lower Miocene of Belgium ( Huyghebaert and Nolf, 1979), the Oligocene–lower Miocene of SW France ( Steurbaut, 1984), and the Aquitanian of Piedmont, Italy ( Nolf and Brzobohaty, 2004), and unlike “genus Neobythitinorum ” boulangeri Nolf ( Steurbaut, 1984) and the modern species Echiodon dentatus (Nolf, 1980) .

Figures

Figure 4. Photographs of the identified otoliths from the Felli section. (A) Lobianchia sp., Felli 11; (B–C) Myripristis verus Steurbaut, (B) Felli 11, (C) Felli 12; (D) Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, Felli 11; (E) Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, Felli 11; (F) “Batrachoidida” vigneauxi (Steurbaut), Felli 11; (G) Blennius sp., Felli 11; (H) Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, Felli 11; (I) Microchirus latior (Schubert), Felli 11; (J–K) Mullus elongatus Steurbaut, (J) Felli 11, (K) Felli 12; (L) Cepola yrieuensis Steurbaut, Felli 11; (M–N) Pomadasys sp., Felli 11; (O) Pagrus sp., Felli 11. (F), (H), (J), and (K) have been mirrored to facilitate comparison.