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Figure 55. +Empetrichthys erdisi Jordan 1924, holotype, CAS 55432 (from color image provided by CAS), scale bar equals 1 cm. 
Type Specimen : -\Parafundid us erdisi Jordan 1924, holotype, CAS 55432 (SU 605,158), left counterpart See 
Remarks section. Cyprinodontidae. 
Type Locality : Confluence of Liebre and Piru Creeks, in Sec.3, T.6N., R.18W., in Santa Barbara National 
Forest, probably Posey Canyon Shale Member, Peace Valley Formation, Mio-Pliocene, Los Angeles 
County (see Remarks for Fundulus sp.). 
Paratvpes (= cotypes of Jordan) : From type locality: CAS 55422 (SU 606), partial right counteipart; CAS 
55431 (SU 607,159), partial right counteipart CAS 55422 is now considered a species of Fundulus (see 
Remarks section). 
Referred Specimens in Uveno and Miller (1962) : From UCLA locality 4187, Posey Canyon Shale Member, 
Peace Valley Formation, Mio-Pliocene, Los Angeles County; 42 specimens, twelve of which are 
deposited in the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology as UMMP 44626-44634) and the 
rest, UCLA 34990 and 34991 and 28 others, are supposed to be deposited in the Department of 
Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, but their whereabouts are unknown. (See Remarks 
for Fundulus sp.) 
From UCLA locality 4193; (located near or at exactly the same site as the Type Locality): a single speci¬ 
men, whereabouts unknown. Cyprinodontidae. (See Remarks for Fundulus sp.) 
Referred Specimens in Uveno and Miller (1963) : None. Cyprinodontidae. 
Referred Specimens in Smith (1981) : None. 
Referred Specimens in Welton and Link (1982: fig. 3): From U CLA locality 4187: UCLA 34990 and UCLA 
34991, whereabouts of both specimens are unknown. Cyprinodontidae. 
Remarks : According to Uyeno and Miller (1962:523-524), Jordan transposed the photographs so that plate J 
displays the type specimen CAS 55432 (SU 605,158), not plate I, and paratype (= cotype of Jordan) CAS 
55422 (SU 606) is figured on plate I. They state that the holotype and paratypes should have the numbers 
505, 506, and 507, respectively, however the CAS catalogue uses the numbers 605-607. In addition, 
Uyeno and Miller identify the paratype CAS 55422 as a species of Fundulus , based on the figures in 
Jordan. They were never able to locate either of the two paratypes in the Stanford University collection, 
however they now are housed in the CAS type collection. Based on molecular evidence, Empetrichthys 
is included in the Goodeidae (Nelson (2006:286). 
Order Stephanoberyciformes 
Family Melamphaidae 
Genus Scopelogadus Vaillant 1888 
t *Scopelogadus (?) capistranensis Ebeling 1962:1-6, text-fig. 1 
Figure 56 
Type Specimen : f Scopelogadus (?) capistranensis Ebeling 1962, holotype, YPM 3965, complete articulated 
skeleton. 
Type Locality : South of Capistrano Beach, Miocene, Orange County. 
Paratype : YPM 3965A, complete articulated skeleton. 
Remarks : Ebeling (1962) described the type “from Miocene shales along the sea cliff south of Capistrano 
Beach in Orange County, California.” No other locality data were provided. 
