Anguilla chickasawae Schwarzhans and Stringer 2020

• Main Authors: Stringer, Gary L., Sloan, James Carson
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Anguilliformes; Anguillidae; Anguilla; Anguilla chickasawae; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913432; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B4F878B256AFF91FC9CFAE0FD89FED9

ANGUILLA? CHICKASAWAE SCHWARZHANS AND STRINGER, 2020a FIG. 5F Material— six specimens, specimen figured, DMNH 2021-09- 6. Description and Remarks— Distinguishing characteristics of Anguilla ? chickasawae include a somewhat oval to ovate shape in well preserved specimens ( sensu Smale et al. 1995) with a H/L ratio of approximately 66%, a convex inner face, a narrow, almost horizontal sulcus with a poorly-defined ostium and cauda. The posterior margin is commonly almost vertical. Stringer et al. (2020, fig. 5A–E) originally described A. ? chickasawae from the Ripley Formation (Maastrichtian) of Mississippi. Anguilla ? chickasawae differs from other Late Cretaceous or Paleogene anguillid otoliths by its much longer ostium. Schwarzhans and Stringer (2020a) postulated that A. ? chickasawae could represent a fossil genus of the Anguillidae or a closely related fossil family of which otoliths are not known presently. Published as part of Stringer, Gary L. & Sloan, James Carson, 2023, First Cretaceous teleostean otolith assemblage (Arkadelphia Formation, upper Maastrichtian) from Arkansas, USA, early Gadiformes, and the Western Interior Seaway, pp. 1-39 in PaleoBios 40 (1994) on page 9, DOI:10.5070/P940361192., http://zenodo.org/record/10913416