A new pearleye (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) species from the Oligocene of Romania

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F19%3A00503952" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/19:00503952 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/19:10471702
Result on the web
<a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0753396919300011" target="_blank" >https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0753396919300011</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2019.01.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.annpal.2019.01.001</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A new pearleye (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) species from the Oligocene of Romania
Original language description
A new pearleye species of the alepisauroid family Scopelarchidae, Scopelarchoides neamticus sp. nov., is described herein based on two specimens from the Oligocene Lower Dysodilic Shales Formation, cropping out in the Pietricica Mountain, Romanian Eastern Carpathians. The new species described herein exhibits a unique combination of features (including head length about 25% of SL, coracoid remarkably expanded, both preorbital and postorbital lengths larger than orbit diameter, 50 or 51 vertebrae, dorsal fin with nine or ten rays, anal-fin with 28 rays, length of anal fin base about 30% of SL, preanal distance almost 60% of SL, pelvic fin insertion located just under the second dorsal fin ray, pectoral fins only slightly longer than pelvic fins, caudal fin with 19 principal rays plus 14 upper and 13 lower procurrent rays) that justifies its recognition as a new species of the genus Scopelarchoides. Both morphological and meristic features suggest a certain degree of similarity between S. neamticus sp. nov. and the extant species Scopelarchoides signifer. The fossils of the new Oligocene species described herein represent the oldest known skeletal record of Scopelarchidae.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

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
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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