First Aspidorhynchidae (Pisces: Teleostei) from Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Richter, Martha, Thomson, M.R.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1989
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ross Island; Nicholson; Nordenskjöld; Whisky Bay; Longing Gap; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; antarcticus; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521321/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102089000106

A new fossil teleost, belonging to the family Aspidorhynchidae Nicholson & Lydekker, Aspidorhynchus antarcticus sp. nov., was obtained from a block of reworked Upper Jurassic tuffaceous mudstone in the lower (Albian) part of the mid-Cretaceous Whisky Bay Formation of James Ross Island, Antarctic...