Publication details
Lower Badenian fish otoliths of the Styrian and Lavanttal basins, with a revision of Weinfurter´s type material
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Geology and mineralogy |
| Keywords | Fish otoliths; palaeoenvironment; Sterisches Basin; Lavanttal Basin; Central Paratethys; Badenian; Middle Miocene |
| Description | The otolith associations (57 taxa) reflect tropical to subtropical nearshore marine faunas quantitatively dominated by gobiids, with most affinities to present-day Atlantic and Mediterranean forms, but the number of Indo-Pacific taxa (6) is also relatively high. One species, Lethrinus styriacus, is new. |