Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) Remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: Taxonomical and Paleoecological Remarks

• Published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Main Authors: Giorgio Carnevale, Stephen J. Godfrey
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2014
• Subjects: Burrows; Salisbury; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.845202

The spectacularly fossiliferous Calvert Formation is largely exposed in Maryland and Virginia and comprises the best available record of middle Miocene life in the northeastern United States. Lopholatilus ereborensis, sp. nov., a new tilefish from the middle Miocene (Langhian) of the Calvert Formati...