Biology:Hensodon
Hensodon is an extinct genus of marine pycnodont ray-finned fish known from the Late Cretaceous of the Middle East. It contains a single species, H. spinosus, that lived during the upper Cenomanian-aged Sannine Formation of what is now Lebanon.[1][2][3] H. spinosus superficially resembled a marine angelfish with a massive head, and a very spiny pectoral girdle. Different specimens have different arrangements of the horn-like frontal spines, and these are potentially thought to represent sexual dimorphism within the species. One form has the horns arranged as a double-prong, assumed to be the male, and the other form, assumed to be the female, having the horns one after the other, like those of a rhinoceros.[4]
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References
- ↑ Kriwet, Jürgen (2004-09-10). [0525:ANPFGN2.0.CO;2 "A new pycnodont fish genus (Neopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Mount Lebanon"]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (3): 525–532. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0525:ANPFGN2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0525:ANPFGN]2.0.CO;2.
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- ↑ CAPASSO, Luigi Lorenzo; Louis TAVERNE; Roy NOHRA (20 October 2010). "A re-description of Hensodon spinosus, a remarkable coccodontid fish(Actinopterygii, †Pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)of Haqel, Lebanon". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 80: 145–162. http://www.naturalsciences.be/pdf/bulletin/earth_sciences/2010/Capasso%20et%20al,%20kleur%20Bulletin%2080.pdf.
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