A toadfish (Batrachoidiformes) from the Oligocene of the Eastern Carpathians (Piatra Neamt, Romania)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F18%3A00486206" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/18:00486206 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0715" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0715</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0715" target="_blank" >10.1127/njgpa/2018/0715</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A toadfish (Batrachoidiformes) from the Oligocene of the Eastern Carpathians (Piatra Neamt, Romania)
Original language description
A single articulated skeleton of a juvenile toadfish (Batrachoidiformes) is described from the Oligocene Bituminous Marls Formation exposed in the Cozla Mountain, not far from the city center of Piatra Neamt in the Romanian Eastern Carpathians. The fossil is only partially complete, lacking most of the caudal portion of the body, and incompletely ossified due to its juvenile nature. However, it shows a suite of features that unambiguously support its attribution to the batrachoidiform family Batrachoididae, including the overall morphology of the head, unossified mesethmoid, supracleithrum ankylosed with posttemporal, and first epineural considerably hypertrophied. Unfortunately, due to the both the incompleteness and juvenile nature of the fossil, it is not possible to provide a detailed comparative analysis with both extant and extinct toadfishes and to define its taxonomic status at the genus or species level. Anyway, the possession of a single pair of hypertrophied first epineurals clearly separates the fossil documented herein from the only other Oligocene toadfish known based on articulated skeletal remains, Louckaichthys novosadi, which is characterized by two pairs of robust and hypertrophied epineurals.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10506 - Paleontology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-21523S" target="_blank" >GA16-21523S: Changes of the Paratethys fish fauna during Oligocene to Lower Miocene – evidence on selected groups from sites in Moravia (Czech Republic)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen
ISSN
0077-7749
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
287
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
241-248
UT code for WoS article
000427020600008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041849875