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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Number 159 
Type Locality : Monterey, California. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0967:19-211 : No specific specimens, just mentioned that otoliths of O. taylori 
were abundant in the following deposits: 
LACMIP locality 305 (= LACM locality 44213), San Diego, San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, San 
Diego County. 
LACMIP locality 423 (= LACM locality 3245), Signal Hill (= Interstate 405 and Cherry Avenue, Long 
Beach), Fernando Formation, Plio-Pleistocene, Los Angeles County (see Remarks). 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Reimer 11967:79. 84. 88: fig. 161 : From LACMIP locality 423, Signal Hill, 
Fernando Formation, Late Pliocene, Los Angeles County; 45 otoliths (one in Fig. 16) (see Remarks). 
Referred Specimens in Downs 11968:53: text-fig. 25cl : Made the general statement that otoliths of O. taylori 
were found in Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits of Southern California and figured one in text-fig. 25c. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0968:241 : No specific specimens. He states that otoliths of O. taylori are abun¬ 
dant in many southern California Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Lavenberg ( 1968:75k Mentioned that otoliths of O. taylori are common con¬ 
stituents of marine Pliocene deposits throughout California. 
Referred Specimens in Zinsmeister 11970:124. table lk From LACMIP locality 471 (= LACM locality 3802), 
Upper Newport Bay (= Newport Back Bay Cliffs), Fernando Formation, Plio-Pleistocene, Orange County; 
no specific specimens, just that otoliths of O. taylori were present. 
Referred Specimens in Nolf ( 1985:641 : No specific specimens. He stated that otoliths of C. taylori were report¬ 
ed from the California Pliocene by Fitch (1968). 
Remarks : According to Powell (1998:70-71), LACMIP locality 423 (= LACM locality 3245) is in Pleistocene 
strata, therefore a Pliocene record of O. taylori from this locality is questionable. Fitch (1967) also report¬ 
ed otoliths of O. taylori from LACMIP locality 435 (Lomita Marl, Pliocene, Los Angeles County), how¬ 
ever this locality is considered Pleistocene (Blake 1991; Dibblee 1999). 
Genus Ophidion Linnaeus 1758 
Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs 1916) 
Selected References (fossils only) 
Otophidium scrippsae Hubbs 1916: Fitch and Reimer 1967:79, 84 88, table 1, fig. 13. 
Otophidium scrippsi Hubbs: Fitch and Lavenberg 1975:90. 
Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs 1916): Eschmeyer 1998:1528. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Otophidion scrippsi Hubbs 1916, holotype, SIO 64-283. 
Type Locality : Near Cerros Island, off coast of Baja California, Mexico. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Reimer 0967: 79. 84. 88. table L fig. 13k From LACMIP locality 423 
(= LACM locality 3245), Signal Hill (= Interstate 405 and Cherry Avenue, Long Beach), Fernando 
Formation, Plio-Pleistocene, Los Angeles County; 105 otoliths (one as fig. 13). 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Lavenberg 0975:901 : No specific specimens; they state that otoliths of 
O. scrippsi (= O. scrippsae ) have been found in several Pliocene deposits in California. 
Remarks : Eschmeyer (1998:1528) discussed the reason for Ophidion scrippsae being the valid name for the 
species. According to Powell (1998:70-71), LACMIP locality 423 (=LACM locality 3245) is in 
Pleistocene strata, therefore a Pliocene record of O. scrippsae from this locality is questionable. 
f Ophidion ozymandias Jordan 1921a 
Figure 44 
Selected Synonymy & References 
\ Ozymandias gilberti Jordan 1919 [in part]: Jordan in Jordan and Gilbert 1920:36-37, pi. 24: Jordan 
1921:290. 
f Ophidion ozymandias Jordan 1921a:290. 
