Biology:Concavotectum

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Concavotectum
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tselfatiiformes
Family: Plethodidae
Genus: Concavotectum
Cavin & Forey, 2008
Species:
C. moroccensis
Binomial name
Concavotectum moroccensis
Cavin & Forey, 2008 vide Cavin et al., 2010
Synonyms

Concavotectum is an extinct genus of tselfatiiforme bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian in Morocco and possibly Egypt.[1][2] It was discovered and named in 2008 and is known from a single well preserved hand-sized skull and a few isolated vertebrae discovered in the Kem Kem Group (Gara Sbaa Formation).[3][1][4] The type species, C. moroccensis, was named in 2008[4] and described in 2010.[1] A possible second and third specimen, found in the Baharija Formation, consists of a 2 skulls and several vertebra, which were all destroyed on the night of 24-25 April 1940, during the Bombing of Munich in World War II. They are currently the holotype of the possible synonym Paranogmius.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cavin L, Tong H, Boudad L, Meister C, Piuz A, Tabouelle J, et al. (2010) Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences Geological Society of Africa Presidential Review No 16 57: 391–412.
  2. "Crossognathiformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35416. 
  3. Ibrahim, N.; Sereno, P.C.; Varricchio, D.J.; Martill, D.M.; Dutheil, D.B.; Unwin, D.M.; Baidder, L.; Larsson, H.C.E. et al. (2020). "Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco". ZooKeys (928): 1–216. doi:10.3897/zookeys.928.47517. PMID 32362741. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Mesozoic Fishes 4 (2008) - Homology and Phylogeny, Chapter: A new tselfatiiform teleost from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Kem Kem beds, Southern Morocco, Publisher: Verlag Dr. F. Pfeil, Editors: Gloria Arratia, Hasn-Peter Schiultze, Mark V. H. Wilson, pp.199-216
  5. Weiler, W. (1935). Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. Stromers in den Wusten Aegyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 16. Neue Untersuchungen an den Fischresten. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, 32, pls-1.

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