Fish Otoliths from the Cabarruyan Piacenzian-Gelasian fauna found in the Philippines
Author
Van Hinsbergh, Victor W. M.
Author
Helwerda, Renate A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-04
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4563.3.1
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Owstonia nigromarginatus
Fourmanoir, 1985
(Figures 94–97)
1999
Sphenanthias nigromarginatus
Rivaton J, Bourret P
, pag 322–323, plate 152, fig. 9–10
Material:
6 specimens
in total. Anda1 (1) RGM 962273;
Anda2 (3)
RGM 962274
,
RGM 962275
,
RGM 962276
;
Roxas (2)
RGM 962277
,
RGM 962278
.
Oval-elongated
Cepola
-like otoliths (OL:OH=1.68–1.95) with a bluntly pointed anterior end and a roundedoblique posterior end. The sulcus is sigmoid with a large ostium of which 60% is covered by a colliculum and a small cauda that is separated from the ostium by an almost similar sized collum. The inner surface of the larger specimen is convex but with a clear dorsal depression. The outer surface is smooth and flat in the center with a feeble depression at the anterior side; close to the rims the surface becomes convex.
The inner surface is more convex than that in the extant
Cepola macrophthalma
(Linnaeus, 1758)
and two other
Owstonia
species (formely
Sphenanthias
)
species (sp. 1 and sp. 2) depicted by
Rivaton & Bourret (1999)
.