Bony-Tongue Fishes (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) from the Eocene Nanjemoy Formation, Virginia

• Published in: Northeastern Naturalist
• Main Authors: Hilton, Eric J., Carpenter, Jeffrey
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2020
• Subjects: Fisheries Science Peer-Reviewed Articles; Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Sullivan; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/1910; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/2910/viewcontent/out.pdf

Bony-tongue fishes, Osteoglossomorpha, are distributed in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia and are found on all continents except Antarctica in the fossil record. The group includes fishes such as the mooneyes (Hiodontidae), freshwater knifefishes (Notopteridae), elephantfishes (...