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Genus
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<paragraph id="FC6EFD93E69FEC30C6EC0C048F5962CA" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Type-species.</paragraph>
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Designated here as
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Stolley, 1912.
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established
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<emphasis id="7122E9C33DE3141CCF22C3FCC5FA8147" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Archaeotolithus</emphasis>
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as an otolith-based genus, or, in his words, as a new
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(typ. nov.). He may have been considering
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<emphasis id="8011DAB5FBAFA1A0794F3E5FA99644E0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Archaeotolithus</emphasis>
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to represent a collective group genus comparable to
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as introduced by
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; see
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in Addendum). However, we are of the opinion that the otoliths Stolley attributed to
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indeed represent a very specific and unique morphology, and, therefore, a formal otolith-based genus for this pattern is well-justified. This point also generates the need to select a type-species for the redefined otolith-based genus of
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, which we represent here.
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<paragraph id="3A212BEAD279DD7289EF26445D5DB11A" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Otoliths with a triangular shape that can reach about 7 mm in length. The three corners are the preventral, postventral and middorsal angles. Inner face convex; outer face flat, often with fine radial furrows starting from the middorsal angle. Otolith nucleus distinctly eccentric, visible on the outer face at the middorsal angle. Inner face with distinctly supramedian sulcus with often vague margins, particularly its ventral margin. Ostium and cauda intergrading and poorly distinguished. Ostium open anteriorly, its ventral margin deeply expanding downward. Cauda narrower, slightly downward-oriented toward posterior, and terminating close to posterior tip of otolith. No dorsal depression or ventral furrow.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EA9635BC7595C7171F9433F6562A89AF" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Species, distribution and stratigraphic ranges.</paragraph>
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Three species are referred here to
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:
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(Malling &amp;
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, 1909) from the Pliensbachian of the isle of Bornholm, Denmark, and Franconia;
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sp. nov. from the late Pliensbachian of Franconia; and
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Stolley, 1912 from the late Pliensbachian of Franconia and the Bajocian of northern Germany.
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Malling and
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(1909)
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also reported two additional, presumably
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, otoliths from the Pliensbachian of Bornholm in open nomenclature, which cannot be identified from their documentation.
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<paragraph id="58E8CEDBB3431BF16D9BA541BA74F22B" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">Relationships.</paragraph>
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The relationships of
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are obscure. We are not entirely certain whether it represents a sagittal otolith, although this appears likely because of the presence of a sulcus on what is perceived as the inner face of the otoliths, or a lapillus. In any case its peculiar and highly characteristic morphology does not relate to that of any known teleost.
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Three kinds of vaguely similar otoliths have also been reported from the Late Jurassic freshwater sediments of eastern Australia (
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). This
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is of interest because it bears four taxa of pholidophoriforms, one macrosemiiform and one chondrostean in addition to the most common fish,
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(Woodward, 1895), a
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teleost. Otoliths
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are only known from the latter, probably due to a function of its overwhelming abundance (
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). It thus appears likely that the three Australian
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look-alike morphotypes belong to pholidophoriforms instead of chondrosteans (palaeonisciforms) as suggested by
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. Indeed, the
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morphotype best resembles the otoliths of extant lepisosteiforms (for figures, see
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and
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). Therefore, the most likely candidates for relationships with
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may be expected in Ginglymodi or very basal
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below the
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level. We hope that otoliths will eventually be found
<emphasis id="060FDA3CBC2B5FDAA07B921AE3307410" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="51">in situ</emphasis>
and this enigmatic otolith morphology can be reliably related to a systematic context.
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