30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada
30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada 30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada 30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada 30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada 30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada

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30106 - Beautiful 2.48 Inch Gasterosteus doryssus Fossil Fish Pliocene - Nevada

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Species
Gasterosteus doryssus (Jordan, 1907)
Age
Pliocene (~4 million years)
Location
Hazen, Nevada, USA
Formation
Lahontan beds
Size
63 mm   •    in
Weight
75 g   •    oz
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Description

Gasterosteus, Linnaeus 1758 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acanthomorphata

 
PaleoDB taxon number: 35861

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Gasterosteidae according to O. P. Hay 1902

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Pungitius

Subtaxa: Gasterosteus aculeatus, Gasterosteus bispinosus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Environments: terrestrial (3 collections), lacustrine (1), marine (1), coastal (1)

Age range: 10.3 to 0.0 Ma

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador collection), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: California)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Nevada)

• Miocene of United States (1: California)

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