European Journal of Taxonomy 322: 1–44 ISSN 2118-9773 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.322 www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu 2017 · Lin C.-H. et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Research article urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F70FBD3-7F5E-4163-A577-AD2F56F87A7B Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance Chien-Hsiang LIN 1,*, Rostislav BRZOBOHATÝ 2, Dirk NOLF 3, Angela GIRONE 4 1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via E. Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Republic of Panama. 2 Department of Geological Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. 3 Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29, Rue Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. 4 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via E. Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy. * Corresponding author:
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[email protected] 1 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:D39077E1-7025-4118-B258-C4A896E63E2A 2 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:A354D828-3D07-46F5-9D27-4F9D7B208F12 3 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:6BCC71A0-1BEE-4BC0-BDFC-D070609DEFAB 4 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:B4212D22-1D1B-48E9-8ABB-C1D1E05573EF Abstract. The Tortonian fish otoliths of northern Italy have been studied for more than a century and represent one of the best known otolith-based teleost faunas in the Miocene of the Mediterranean Basin.