Coelorinchus nordenskjoeldi Schwarzhans & Mors & Engelbrecht & Reguero & Kriwet 2017, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Schwarzhans, Werner, Mors, Thomas, Engelbrecht, Andrea, Reguero, Marcelo, Kriwet, Jurgen
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Gadiformes; Macrouridae; Coelorinchus; Coelorinchus nordenskjoeldi; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10883167; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10883167

Coelorinchus nordenskjoeldi sp. nov. (Figs 4N—R, 6J—L) Material. Holotype: NRM-PZ P.15978 (Figs 4N—P, 6J—L). Paratypes: eight specimens, NRM-PZ P.15979—15980 (Fig. 4Q, R). Other material: 11 eroded or fragmentary specimens, NRM-PZ P.15981—15982. Occurrence. Telm 5 unit; ‘ Natica horizon’, Cucullea I member, La Meseta Formation, late Ypresian, early Eocene. Site IAA 1/90, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Etymology. Named in honour of Dr Otto Nordenskjold, leader of the Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901—1903. Diagnosis. OL:OH = 1.9—2.0. Dorsal rim with broad predorsal angle. Ventral rim rather shallow, deepest anteriorly, sometimes flattened at deepest point. CCL: OCL = 1.3; CaL:OsL = 1.3—1.45. Collum narrow, ventrally indented, without pseudocolliculum. Description. Moderately elongate and moderately thin otoliths of up to at least 6 mm in length (holotype 5.7 mm long). OH:OT = 2.6—3.0. Dorsal rim highest anteriorly above ostial collum with broad predorsal angle, rim somewhat undulating, posteriorly regularly ... : Published as part of Schwarzhans, Werner, Mors, Thomas, Engelbrecht, Andrea, Reguero, Marcelo & Kriwet, Jurgen, 2017, Before the freeze: otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei), pp. 147-170 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (2) on pages 157-158, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958, http://zenodo.org/record/10883098 ...