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Figure 5. t Etrmgus scintillans Jordan 1907, holotype, CAS 55492 (from color image provided by CAS); scale bar equals 5 cm. 
Paratvpes given in Jordan 0919) : From type locality: CAS 55493 (SU 65 and 66, right and left counterparts, 
poorly presaved), 55490 (SU 99); 55513 (five specimens, three with SU numbers 101,102, and 104); 
SU 75,76, 77, 89, 95,96, 99, whereabouts unknown. 
From: Soledad: SU 84, whereabouts unknown. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan (1919) : From Brown’s Canon (near North Beverly Glen Blvd), Modelo 
Formation, Late Miocene, Los Angeles County; SU 97, 98, 100, 103, whereabouts unknown. 
tPholidophoridae. 
Referred Specimen? in Jordan (1921a): No specific specimens mentioned. fGanolytidae. 
Referrred Specimens in David (1943:6-9) : From LACM (CIT) localities 317,320, and 321, Sepulveda Canyon, 
Modelo Formation, Late Miocene, Los Angeles County; specimens LACM (CIT) 10002, counterpart; 
10003, right and left counterparts; 10004-10007, counterparts; 10010, counterpart; 10041; left and right 
counterparts; 10042; right counterpart; 10056, partial left counterpart; 10057, left counterpart; 10059, right 
counterpart; 10103, left and right counterparts; Layton collection specimens 5-9, 22,24-27, whereabouts 
unknown; UCLA specimen 1.555, whereabouts unknown; LACM specimen 1062, left and right counter¬ 
parts. Placed t E. scintillans in the family Dussumieridae [now considered a subfamily of the Clupeidae 
(Nelson 2006:132)]. 
Referred Specimens in David U 943:55) : Notes there are a number of more or less well-preserved specimens, 
but only specifically mentions no. 202 in the Los Angeles City College collection, whereabouts unknown, 
and an uncatalogued fragment from LACM (CIT) locality 382, Santa Monica Mountains, Modelo 
Formation, Late Miocene, Los Angeles County. 
Referred Specimens in David (1943:95) : No specific specimens mentioned. Recognizes 1[E. scintillans as a 
clupeoid. 
Referred Specimens in David (1944:36. text-fig. 4. figs. 1-8. pi. 4. fig. 32) : From LACM (CIT) locality 334, 
Santa Monica Mountains, Modelo Formation, Middle-Late Miocene, Los Angeles County; scale 
(text-fig. 4, fig. 1, pi. 4, fig. 32), whereabouts unknown. 
From Axis Company Rowland well number 1 locality, Middle-Late Miocene: two scales (text-fig. 4, figs. 
2,3), whereabouts unknown. 
From Girard-Mineral Springs, Santa Monica Mountains, Modelo Formation, Middle-Late Miocene, Los 
Angeles county: three scales (text-fig. 4, figs. 4-6), whereabouts unknown. 
From Puente Hills, Puente Formation, Middle-Late Miocene, Los Angles County; two scales (text-fig. 4, 
figs. 7, 8), whereabouts unknown. 
From LACM (CIT) locality 317, Santa Monica Mountains, Modelo Formation, Late Miocene, Los 
Angeles County; scale (unfigured), whereabouts unknown. Dussumieridae. 
