NEW ADDITIONS TO THE MESSINIAN FISH-FAUNA OF THE SIERRA-DE-COLUMBARES(MURCIA PROVINCE, SPAIN)

Authors
GAUDANT J
Citation
J. Gaudant, NEW ADDITIONS TO THE MESSINIAN FISH-FAUNA OF THE SIERRA-DE-COLUMBARES(MURCIA PROVINCE, SPAIN), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie, 320(5), 1995, pp. 439-446
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Mecanique, physique, chimie, astronomie → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518069
Volume
320
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Part
2
Pages
439 - 446
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8069(1995)320:5<439:NATTMF>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The study of almost 300 fossil fishes from the Messinian marine diatom aceous marls of the Sierra de Columbares, near Murcia (Spain) leads on e to add six more laxa to the faunal list of this locality that includ es at least sixteen species of teleosts. The meso- and/or bathypelagic fishes (Myctophidae and Paralepididae) together make up 87.8% of this fish-fauna, in spite of the fact that the sedimentation seems to have taken place in shallow waters.