Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses

Annales de Paleontologie

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-96

  Žalohar, Jure ^a   Hitij, Tomaž ^a   Križnar, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Coprolitic Horizon; Fossil seahorses; Miocene; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; NEW SPECIES; PARATETHYS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); HIPPOCAMPUS BARGIBANTI; HIPPOCAMPUS TRIMACULATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS ZOSTERAE; PARATETHYS; SYNGNATHIDAE;

EID: 67349213884     PISSN: 07533969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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