Sarmatella aff. pulchra ( Smigielska, 1966 )

Brzobohatý, Rostislav & Nolf, Dirk, 2018, Revision of the Middle Badenian fish otoliths from the Carpathian Foredeep in Moravia (Middle Miocene, Czech Republic), Cybium 42 (2), pp. 143-167 : 146-148

Sarmatella aff. pulchra ( Smigielska, 1966) ( Pl. 1 ,

Fig. 7a, b). A small clupeid otolith with a narrow, but prominent rostrum seems to be closely related or identical with those described as Clupea pulchra from the Badenian of Poland by Smigielska, and interpreted as an incertae sedis clupeid at generic level by Nolf (2013: p. 40). Recently, Baykina and Schwarzhans (2016) described a skeleton of Sarmatella doljeana (Kramberger, 1883) , with an otolith in situ, from the Sarmatian of Beograd ( Serbia), as well as oste- ological material of Sarmatella tsurevica (Baykina, 2012) from the early Sarmatian of the Northern Caucasus with an otolith supposed to be associated with bones of that species. On the basis of the similarity of the otoliths of both these species and those of the clupeid described by Smigielska, he attributed the latter species to the extinct genus Sarmatella .

Arius aff. germanicus ( Koken, 1891) (Pl. 5, Fig. 1a, b).

Ariids are very rare in the Miocene record despite their robust utricular otoliths. There are three taxa mentioned from the Miocene of the Paratethys basins. A single adult and well-preserved specimen from Lomnice u Tišnova (L = 11.8 mm, H = 10.0 mm, L:H = 1.18) differs from otoliths described from the Badenian of Romania as A. germanicus by Weiler (1950: pl. 1, fig. 1) in the more compressed appearance only. It seems to be very close to the Oligocene otoliths of A. germanicus , especially to the Lower Oligocene ones (comp. also Koken’s, 1891 descriptions: p. 81), but it differs in the more compressed appearance and more rounded dorsal margin from the Middle Oligocene specimen ( Koken, 1891: pl. 1, fig. 3a, b, c; Nolf, 2013: pl. 37). A comparison with A. nucleus ( Weinfurter, 1952: p. 488, pl. 5, figs 1, 2) and “genus Ariidarum ” sp. ( Radwańska, 1992: pl. 4, fig. 15) from the Badenian of the Styrian Basin and Carpathian Foredeep of Poland, respectively, reveals many more differences.

Figures

Plate 1. – Explanation of the plates:All figured specimens are deposited in the collections of the Department of Geological Sciences, Masa- ryk University (DGS MU), Brno, Kotlářská 2, Czech Republic.The fossil otoliths bear numbers of the collection of types and figured fossil fish specimens in the DGS MU (Inv. Nr. O 315-377). The annotations a, b and c are used to indicate ventral, inner (= mesial) and posterior views, respectively. Figures with only numbers and no letter show inner views. In the captions, L stands for left otolith and R for right oto- lith. 1: Conger aff. conger (Linnaeus, 1758); Drnovice, Badenian, L (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 315). 2: Serrivomer sp.; Lomnička, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 316). 3: Pterothrissus umbonatus (Koken, 1884); Drnovice, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 317). 4: Bathycongrus nagymarosyi Nolf & Brzobohaty, 1994; Voděrady, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 318). 5: Glossanodon cf. leioglossus (Valenciennes, 1848); Lomnice u Tišnova, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 319). 6: Sagamichthys? sp.; Voděrady, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 320). 7: Sarmatella aff. pulchra (Smigielska, 1966); Lomnice u Tišnova, Badenian, L (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 321). 8: Scopelarchus aff. guentheri Alcock, 1896; Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 326). 9: Etrumeus? weileri (Smigielska, 1966); Borač, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 323). 10: Bregmaceros albyi (Sauvage, 1880); Lomnice u Tišnova, Badenian, R (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 324). 11: Physiculus aff. huloti Poll, 1953; Lomnice u Tišnova, Badenian, L (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 325). 12: Nansenia sp.; Borač, Badenian, L (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 322). 13: Merluccius aff. merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758); Lomnice u Tišnova, Badenian, L (DGS MU Inv. Nr. O 327).