. Bulletin. Science. A NEW MIOCENE SPECIES OF POGONIAS 69 dorsal margin precaudal depression ^^ " postdorsal projection / anterior ( . Nr- -'\ X posterior margin ostium %.../^ ' X ^V xcauda midventral notch postostial lobe ventral margin Fig. 1. Diagram of the inner face of a right saccular otolith of Pogonias illustrating its various diagnostic features. Modified after Schwarzhans (1993). assemblage at this site includes pleuronectids and bothids (right- and left-eyed flatfishes), serranids (basses), atherinids (silversides), mugilids (mullets), gobiids (gobies), clupeids (herrings), and
. Bulletin. Science. A NEW MIOCENE SPECIES OF POGONIAS 69 dorsal margin precaudal depression ^^ " postdorsal projection / anterior ( . Nr- -'\ X posterior margin ostium %.../^ ' X ^V xcauda midventral notch postostial lobe ventral margin Fig. 1. Diagram of the inner face of a right saccular otolith of Pogonias illustrating its various diagnostic features. Modified after Schwarzhans (1993). assemblage at this site includes pleuronectids and bothids (right- and left-eyed flatfishes), serranids (basses), atherinids (silversides), mugilids (mullets), gobiids (gobies), clupeids (herrings), and other nearshore forms (Clarke and Fitch 1979), but the vast majority of the otoliths are of sciaenids. The Sciaenidae represent approximately 58% of the total number of otoliths (approximately 12,000 of the approximately 21,000 otoliths) and include at least 7 genera. The Barker's Ranch ichthyofauna lacks a comprehensive faunal study. Some groups, such as the mollusks and other invertebrates, are well documented from the Barker's Ranch area (Addicott 1956, 1965, 1970, 1972; Clarke and Fitch 1979). However, the Barker's Ranch ichthyofauna has been largely untouched except for a few brief reports. Fitch (1969:13, fig. 2d) reported, but did not describe otoliths of the lanternfish Lampanyctus in a review of fossil Myctophidae of North America. Clarke and Fitch (1979:492) in a study of fossil teuthoid (cephalopod) statoliths of North America briefly mentioned some of the associated teleost fauna based on otoliths. Olson and Welton (1986:49) listed the selachian taxa and otoliths of unidentified sciaenids and bothids. More recently, the authors have reported a fin spine of the chimaeroid fish Edaphodon (Takeuchi and Huddleston 2006) and described the first fossil occurrence of the sciaenid genus Totoaba based on saccular otoliths from the Barker's Ranch area (Huddleston and Takeuchi 2007). We describe here a new late early Miocene species of sciaenid, in the genus Pogonias from Cal
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