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Otoliths belonging to this species are commonly found in the Bashi and Hatchetigbee formations and share several distinctive characteristics with those of 
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from the Ypresian London Clay, as described by 
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under the name 
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. The general outline of the otoliths, as well as the downward-bent cauda, suggest that this species can be assigned to the fossil genus 
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