<documentID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.81737"ID-GBIF-Dataset="d148b8fa-4f4c-4069-80e5-f04f98561bfe"ID-Pensoft-Pub="2747-8106-96-51"ID-Pensoft-UUID="FCEF2A912BC258BBB022681E86486B06"ID-ZooBank="CD8C70BA025345408EFCD430A12F6B35"ModsDocID="2747-8106-96-51"checkinTime="1649795137967"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Schwarzhans, Werner & Keupp, Helmut"docDate="2022"docId="A4CD9C9FCA3B5EA994A6FF2AA47F9886"docLanguage="en"docName="Zitteliana 96: 51-67"docOrigin="Zitteliana 96"docPubDate="2022-04-12"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.81737"docTitle="Archaeotolithus bornholmiensis"docType="treatment"docVersion="4"id="FCEF2A912BC258BBB022681E86486B06"lastPageNumber="51"masterDocId="FCEF2A912BC258BBB022681E86486B06"masterDocTitle="Early teleost otolith morphogenesis observed in the Jurassic of Franconia, Bavaria, southern Germany"masterLastPageNumber="67"masterPageNumber="51"pageNumber="51"updateTime="1732488386774"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="A81089939DA03CC9E57A019A8F00F38C">Early teleost otolith morphogenesis observed in the Jurassic of Franconia, Bavaria, southern Germany</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="94CCA5B78A4CC7682AC36ADEF433FCD5">Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Kobenhavn, Denmark & Ahrensburger Weg 103, 22359 Hamburg, Germany</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="60C3A5DB0766BEB6721F5D1D62B3AAB4"captionStart="Plate 4"captionStartId="F6"captionText="Plate 4. Otoliths of Archaeotolithus. fig. 1: Achaeotolithus bornholmiensis (Malling & Gronwall, 1909), from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, holotype SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 7, EPH horizon. figs 2 - 4: Archaeotolithus doppelsteini sp. nov., from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, EPH horizon; 2: holotype SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 8; 3 - 4: paratypes SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 9. figs 5 - 7: Archaeotolithus trigonalis Stolley, 1912, from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, EPH horizon, figured specimens SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 12."figureDoi="10.3897/zitteliana.96.81737.plate4"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/671634"pageId="0"pageNumber="51">Plate 4, fig. 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="3E1086214367E3D5F62521CBEC7E9FFD"captionStart="Plate 4"captionStartId="F6"captionText="Plate 4. Otoliths of Archaeotolithus. fig. 1: Achaeotolithus bornholmiensis (Malling & Gronwall, 1909), from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, holotype SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 7, EPH horizon. figs 2 - 4: Archaeotolithus doppelsteini sp. nov., from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, EPH horizon; 2: holotype SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 8; 3 - 4: paratypes SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 9. figs 5 - 7: Archaeotolithus trigonalis Stolley, 1912, from the late Pliensbachian of Buttenheim, EPH horizon, figured specimens SNSB-BSPG 2022 IV 12."figureDoi="10.3897/zitteliana.96.81737.plate4"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/671634"pageId="0"pageNumber="51">4</figureCitation>
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is the only species in the genus with almost no indication of a sulcus and further differs from its congeners in the more strongly convex inner face. It is thus also the one most resembling the characteristics of a lapillus.
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