First Skeletal Fossil Record of the Red Seabream <i>Pagrus major</i> (Sparidae, Perciformes) from the Late Pleistocene of Subtropical West Pacific, Southern Taiwan.
Chien‐Hsiang Lin, Hsin-Yueh Ou, Chia-Yen Lin, Hong‐Ming Chen
Abstract
in the region. Finally, the specialized tooth pattern and the estimated size indicate that the fish was a middle-to-top predator that fed on small fish and invertebrates in a neritic lagoonal environment.
Topics & Concepts
SparidaePagrusPerciformesBiologyFaunaDentitionActinopterygiiSubtropicsPlio-PleistoceneFisheryIndo-PacificPleistoceneZoologyPaleontologyEcologyFish <Actinopterygii>Ichthyology and Marine BiologyMarine animal studies overviewMarine and fisheries research