Fig. 47
From: Otoliths of the Gobiidae from the Neogene of tropical America
Fossil gobioid creaming curve showing cumulative description of fossil taxa from articulated skeletons (black), articulated skeletons with otoliths in situ (red), otolith-based species (green) and otolith-based species from America. The records reflect fossil gobioid species currently accepted as valid. Otolith-based species are compiled from Nolf (1985, 2013) and own evaluation for articles after 2012; skeletal records compiled from Gierl and Reichenbacher (2015, 2017), Bannikov and Carnevale (2016), Schwarzhans et al., (2017a, 2017b), Reichenbacher et al., (2017, 2020, 2023), Bradić-Milinović et al. (2019), and Reichenbacher and Bannikov (2021, 2022). Extant species also recorded as fossils and species in open nomenclature are not included. The first description of a fossil gobioid skeleton (Agassiz, 1939), the first fossil gobioid otolith (Koken, 1891), and the first fossil gobioid otolith from America (Schubert, 1908) are annotated