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Type Specimen : f Smilodonichthys rastrosus, holotype, UO 26799, skull with jaws, and branchial apparatus. 
Salmonidae. 
Type Locality : UO locality 2250, Madras Formation, Barstovian, Late Miocene, near Gateway, Jefferson 
County, Oregon. 
Paratvpe : From type locality: UO F3335, associated fragments from a single individual. 
From type locality: UMMP V58061-V580633. 
From Worden, Klamath County, Oregon, ?Yonna Formation, Late Miocene: UMMP V58064. 
Referred Specimens from California : From Pinole, Contra Costa County, Late Miocene, UC localities V2572, 
V3425, V3837; specimens UCMP 22560,34566,37584, 58570,61039,61550,61554,64100,65629, 
and 65630. 
From Turlock Lake, Stanislaus County, Mehrten Formation, Late Miocene; specimens UCMP 44668, 
48657, and 93170-93187. 
Referred Specimens in Barnes et al. H981L From the lower part of the San Mateo Formation, Late Miocene, 
San Diego County; UCMP locality V68147: UCMP 88703, vertebra; UCMP locality 88651: UCMP 
88652, vertebra; 88653, vertebra; 119996, vertebra. 
Referred Specimens in Behnke (T992) : None, just a mention of the presence of rastrosus in the “Pliocene” 
of Oregon and California. 
(1993): No specimens are mentioned, but they stated that 
f O. “Smilodonichthys ” rastrosus is known from the Miocene of California and Oregon. 
Referred Specimens in Smith et al. (2000k They described several specimens of f O. {Smilodonichthys) ras¬ 
trosus collected in the Ringold Formation, Late Miocene, south-central Washington and noted that the 
species is known from the Miocene of coastal California and inland southern Oregon. 
Referred Specimens in Eiting and Smith (2007) : No specific specimens are mentioned, but the authors referred 
to a dwarf form of O. rastrosus in the Chalk Hills Formation, Late Miocene, Owyhee County, Idaho. 
Distribution of Neogene t O. rastrosus outside of California : As noted above, specimens have been collected 
in southern Oregon and northeast Washington. 
Figure 21. ^Oncorhynchus rastrosus (Cavender and Miller 1972), holotype, UO 26799 (from photograph by Lieke Dircks, © UO 
Museum of Natural and Cultural History); scale bar equals 5 cm. 
