New material of the puffer fish Archaeotetraodon winterbottomi Tyler et Bannikov, 1994 (Tetraodontidae) from the Oligocene of the Eastern Paratethys

Stránky	513–518
DOI	10.37520/fi.2022.022
Klíčová slova	Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae, Menilite Series, fossil fish
Typ článku	Recenzovaný článek
Citace	PŘIKRYL, Tomáš, KOVALCHUK, Oleksandr, CARNEVALE, Giorgio a BARKASZI, Zoltán. New material of the puffer fish Archaeotetraodon winterbottomi Tyler et Bannikov, 1994 (Tetraodontidae) from the Oligocene of the Eastern Paratethys. Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2022, 78(2), 513–518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.022. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Dostupné také z: https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicke-publikace/fossil-imprint-acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-series-b-historia-naturalis/78-2/new-material-of-the-puffer-fish-archaeotetraodon-winterbottomi-tyler-et-bannikov-1994-tetraodontidae-from-the-oligocene-of-the-eastern-paratethys

Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis | 2022/78/2

A new specimen of the fossil puffer fish Archaeotetraodon winterbottomi (Tetraodontidae) is described from the lower Oligocene deposits of the Sheshory locality, Ukraine. The specimen reveals a number of characters, some of which are diagnostic and others which were recognized herein for first time, such as the possession of a relatively narrow neurocranium in the supraorbital region, smooth frontals, eight abdominal and nine caudal vertebrae, and long and slender postcleithrum.

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