Gobius brevis (Agassiz, 1839), a gobiid fish with otoliths in situ (Pisces, Teleostei) in the Karpatian (Lower Miocene) of the Vienna Basin

• Authors: BRZOBOHATÝ Rostislav; GAUDANT Jean
• Year of publication: 2009
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Geology and mineralogy
• Keywords: Gobiidae; Teleostean fishes; Lower Miocene (Karpatian); Central Paratethys; Slovakia; otoliths; lagoonal palaeoenvironment
• Description: Gobius brevis, a gobiid fish with otoliths in situ indicates that the final deposition of the Sastin Sand in the Slovak part of the Vienna Basin took place in a very shallow environment corresponding a rather closed lagoon with brackish or oligohaline water, having deficiency of oxygen on the bottom and being deprived of active bottom currents.

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