Fossil mackerel (Actinopterygii: Scombridae: Scomber) from the Neogene of South-Western Sakhalin, Russia

M.V. Nazarkin & A.F. Bannikov

Abstract. The caudal part of a skeleton of mackerel Scomber sp. in the deposits of the Kurasi Formation of Middle-Upper Miocene of south-western Sakhalin Island is reported. It is the first finding of a fossil representative of the suborder Scombroidei in the Far East of Russia. The genus Scomber comprises 4 recent and about 10 fossil species from Oligocene to Pliocene of Europe, North America (California) and East Asia (Japan). Preservation of the material studied was not good enough to allow a detailed comparison of the Sakhalin mackerel with known both recent and extinct species of the genus.

Key words: fossil fish, Miocene, Sakhalin, Scombridae, Scomber

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2014, 23(1): 158-163 ▪ Published in print 25 June 2014

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2014.23.1.158 ▪ Open full article

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