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Probable Gobiomorphus fossils from the Miocene and Pleistocene of New Zealand (Teleostei: Eleotridae)
R. M. McDowall1, E. M. Kennedy2, J. K. Lindqvist3, D. E. Lee3, B. V. Alloway2, and M. R. Gregory4
1National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd, PO Box 8602, Christchurch, New Zealand. r.mcdowall@niwa.co.nz
2GNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
3Department of Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
4Department of Geology, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand.
Abstract Fish fossils that appear to be of Gobiomorphus
species are described from lake sediments from widely separated
localities: near St Bathans, Central Otago, and the Ormond Valley of
the Waipaoa River, inland from Gisborne. Dating of the sites suggests
that the fishes from Central Otago are Early Miocene in age (c. 20–16?million years old), while those from Ormond Valley are of mid-Pleistocene age (c. 620 000 years).
Keywords fossil; Miocene; Pleistocene; Eleotridae; Gobiomorphus; New Zealand; Central Otago; Gisborne
R06002; Received 16 January 2006; accepted 31 July 2006; Online publication date 17 August 2006
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Volume 36, Number 3, September, 2006, pp 97–109
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